Stage Island, ME

After fourteen days moored at Centerboard Yacht Club in South Portland, we continued on our journey down the coast of Maine on Monday, August 29.  We left at 10 a.m. for a four hour journey to an anchorage by Stage Island.  The weather was unsettled and the winds were 20 mph gusting up to 25,  but the conditions were not too terrible. We passed a beautiful lighthouse on Cape Elizabeth as we made our way down the coast.

We made it to Stage Island by 2 pm and maneuvered our way through a mess of lobster pots on our way into the small cove. There were rocks on the right of us and rocks on the left and plenty of rocks in the middle but we safely made our way in where only one other boat, a sailboat, was anchored.  The tides are very extreme here and the high tide does not show all the rocks that emerge as it ebbs so we had to be very careful where we anchored. It took us about three tries before we got it right.

Jonny proceeded to take Archie into shore for a walk on a small uninhabited island that is a part of Maine’s extensive network of nature conservancies.  He signed into the guest book and gave Archie some exercise on the trail and along the shoreline.

That evening we had crab cakes, corn on the cob and salad in the new wooden salad bowl that Robbie had made for us.

Outside we could hear the waves crashing and the wind blowing but we were nice and secure.  We did however, experience a lot more rocking and rolling than we expected but it did lull us to sleep quite easily!