Sunday, July 3, 2016

Maine

We've been in Maine for only a short while. The cabin is beautiful, and very close to a pond that apparently has a population of brook trout. I've already done some things I've not done before: On the drive up we saw a cow moose and her calf, last night we went out on the canoe and saw and heard a loon, and this morning I hiked a couple miles out some old logging roads and caught my first Maine brook trout. Not the most impressive fish in the world, but then again it did come out of a stream so small it isn't on any of the maps I've looked at. There were a few bigger streams with beaver ponds in the area, but I was on my own with no cell service and I was beginning to see the tracks of a huge bull moose tracks crossing the road and I  could hear him moving around just a short distance away in the thick brush. I did not feel like becoming a pancake so I turned back.











8 comments:

  1. The Height of the Land. There is still virgin forest there.
    Lovely brookie.

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    1. I'm not surprised. There are some remote places!

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  2. Awesome to see the fish, the loon song is awesome and the moose - fantastic! Enjoy it!

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  3. You're in the great outdoors for sure! Exquisite...and glad you don't want to be a pancake!
    How is the night sky? Any chance of Northern Lights?
    -G.

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    1. Maine isn't THAT far North, but the lack of light pollution does mean there is some epic sky visible on clear nights.

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  4. That is a great place to be! Nothing like the wilds of that state. GREAT photos. Love the moth. Keep eyes and ears open!
    Tie, fish, write and photo on...

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    1. I'm not one to walk through the woods with a blind eye and a deaf ear.

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