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One of several photos that I took while visiting this quaint and very picturesque old lobster fishing village of Stonington Maine. The town, filled with beautiful and boundless photographic opportunities of old buildings, lobster and fishing boats, viewed in a beautiful harbor setting often lined with wild rosa rugosa rose bushes.
Stonington is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It's located on the southern portion of the island of Deer Isle. The population was 1,056 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Burnt Cove, Oceanville, Green Head, and Clam City. A picturesque working waterfront and tranquil tourist destination in eastern Penobscot Bay, Stonington has consistently ranked among the top lobster ports in the county and is the largest lobster port in Maine. In 2011, 14,854,989 pounds of lobster were landed by Stonington fishermen with a value of $46.3 million.
Sailors on the island became renowned for their maritime skills. Full crews for two America's Cup teams were recruited from Deer Isle for the victorious America's Cup Races of 1895 on The Defender and again in 1899 on Columbia. The Stonington harbor has long been filled with Friendship Sloops among other boat designs, powered by sail only. Lobstermen once used them to haul traps. Most of their trips were to the outer islands (like York Island) near Isle au Haut, fishing during the week and returning to the harbor on weekends. This changed with the advent of gasoline or diesel engines, along with new hull designs, which enabled fishermen to make day trips to fishing grounds in Penobscot Bay.
One of several photos that I took while visiting this quaint and very picturesque old lobster fishing village of Stonington Maine. The town, filled with beautiful and boundless photographic opportunities of old buildings, lobster and fishing boats, viewed in a beautiful harbor setting often lined with wild rosa rugosa rose bushes.
Stonington is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. It's located on the southern portion of the island of Deer Isle. The population was 1,056 at the 2020 census. It includes the villages of Burnt Cove, Oceanville, Green Head, and Clam City. A picturesque working waterfront and tranquil tourist destination in eastern Penobscot Bay, Stonington has consistently ranked among the top lobster ports in the county and is the largest lobster port in Maine. In 2011, 14,854,989 pounds of lobster were landed by Stonington fishermen with a value of $46.3 million.
Sailors on the island became renowned for their maritime skills. Full crews for two America's Cup teams were recruited from Deer Isle for the victorious America's Cup Races of 1895 on The Defender and again in 1899 on Columbia. The Stonington harbor has long been filled with Friendship Sloops among other boat designs, powered by sail only. Lobstermen once used them to haul traps. Most of their trips were to the outer islands (like York Island) near Isle au Haut, fishing during the week and returning to the harbor on weekends. This changed with the advent of gasoline or diesel engines, along with new hull designs, which enabled fishermen to make day trips to fishing grounds in Penobscot Bay.
Created in 2014. Have sold our house in Maine...am already missing being there. This construction is a common enclosure for lobster ponds in Maine.
It was a lovely morning to sit at the end of our peninsula. I need to come down more often. Now that the vacationers are gone, the visit often includes me and perhaps the gardener.
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Gros Morne dominates the horizon at the too left side, glowing in the evening sunset. The village of Rocky Harbour in the foreground is both a tourist and a fishing community. While searching for photo opportunities along the waterfront a lobster fishermen told me his daily catch was to be trucked to Boston the next morning and that local lobster end up all over the Eastern Seaboard and are trucked as far as New Brunswick. An unmarked cliff side park with spectacular views offers vantage points of the region at the edge of town.
Here's "Greyhound" leaving Parrsboro about 30 minutes after arriving to pick up another boat-load of lobster fishing gear. The morning was cold and blustery, but sea conditions hadn't soured to the point where boats were having problems getting around. Here Greyhound is pushing right along, her speed and load causing her stern to settle. The engine might have been turned off at the dock and had a chance to cool off before beginning this outbound trip. Due to the cold air the exhaust is making for a showy exit passing the lighthouse .
A place for everything and everything in its place! I always love looking at fishing boats as there is always so much to look at. Lots of organised clutter. This one was taken at the small but interesting harbour in Stanley, on Tasmania's northwest coast.
Valtos (from the Old Norse 'Vald Hus' meaning 'house of one in power') is a large and well-populated village on the Valtos peninsula in the parish of Uig, on the south west coast of Lewis. With a large and well used pier, it was, and still is a safe harbour from the unpredictable Atlantic swell off the coastline. The stunning views from the pier extend to a number of offshore islands and skerries.
With its picturesque boats and horseshoe curved shoreline, Valtos pier is a natural draw (no pun intended) for artists and photographers alike.
Having said all that... in order to get this shot, I had to get down and dirty with the sheep nuggets that dot the grass. This is a crofting township, and where there's crofts, there's sheep, and where there's sheep, there's sheep poo, in abundance :D It was worth rolling about in the muck. Those lobster pots provided just the right filter for the low winter sunlight
with lower prices and reduced markets because of the covid-19 virus, they hope to make a small income...
We were photographing years ago in Sandford on a great foggy (soft light) day when this cat appeared from under a shed. It didn't behave as a stray, was quite friendly... almost a pest, and followed us around as we shot photos for about 2 hours. It would occasionally move away to investigate something it might have seen in the grass or around the stacked fishing gear, but would eventually return. It finally bedded down on this warm concrete part of the wharf overlooking the channel entrance to the harbor. Although the day was overcast, the concrete was warm... probably the next best thing to sunshine for the cat.
This was taken with my first digital camera, a 3.1 MP Kodak DC4800, a great little pocket-sized camera. It couldn't take RAW images but did take uncompressed TIFFs.
It was a very dependable camera until it developed fine hairline cracks in the plastic body... probably from stress built into the plastic during the molding process.
DCP-1682.
Where all good bulldozers go to rust out their days being crawfishing boat launch tractors at Ngawi near Cape Palliser. The boat trailers are on a long drawbar so that the bulldozer can push the trailers deep into the water and being a stony beach tractors with wheels cannot cope with the heavy weight of the boat and trailer up the bank so the need for tracks.
There is a certain element of a rest home for tractors about it...
Une vue des bateaux entrant au port de North Rustico, Île-du-Prince-Édouard (Prince Edouard Island ou PEI), Canada.
La photo a été prise à l'heure de la rentrée des pêcheurs de homards, à partir du petit parc "North Rustico Harbour Trail", 137 Harbourview Dr, North Rustico, près de la route panoramique des Pignons verts (route 6).
Just one of the many Nova Scotia moments this past weekend as local fishermen prepare their traps and boats for lobster season.
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Lobster traps fill the dock at Bass Harbor, Maine. This is only a small piece of the harbor that is dedicated to commercial lobster fishing.
LuLu Lobster Boat Ride (Lobster Fishing & Seal Watching Tours)
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Bar Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island in Hancock County, Maine, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population is 5,235. Bar Harbor is a popular tourist destination in the Down East region of Maine and home to the College of the Atlantic, Jackson Laboratory, and MDI Biological Laboratory (Salisbury Cove village). Prior to a catastrophic 1947 fire the town was a famous summer colony for the super-affluent elite. Bar Harbor is home to the largest parts of Acadia National Park, including Cadillac Mountain, the highest point within twenty-five miles (40 km) of the coastline of the Eastern United States. The town of Bar Harbor was founded on the northeast shore of Mount Desert Island, which the Wabanaki Indians knew as Pemetic, meaning "range of mountains" or "mountains seen at a distance." The Wabanaki seasonally fished, hunted and gathered berries, clams, and other shellfish in the area. They spoke of Bar Harbor as Man-es-ayd'ik ("clam-gathering place") or Ah-bays'auk ("clambake place"), leaving great piles of shells as evidence of this abundance. In early September 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain ran aground on a rock ledge believed to be just off Otter Cliffs, and when he came ashore to repair his boat he met local natives. Champlain named the island Isles des Monts Deserts, meaning "island of barren mountains"—now called Mount Desert Island, the largest in Maine. Mount Desert Island (often abbreviated MDI), in Hancock County, Maine, is the largest island off the coast of Maine. With an area of 108 square miles (280 km2) it is the 6th largest island in the contiguous United States. It is the second-largest island on the Eastern seaboard, behind Long Island and ahead of Martha's Vineyard. According to the 2010 census, the island has a year-round population of 10,615, although it is estimated that two and a half million tourists a year visit Acadia National Park on the island. The island is home to numerous well-known summer colonies such as Northeast Harbor and Bar Harbor.
[source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Harbor,_Maine]
Lobster traps sit on a dock waiting for the start of lobster season in Terence Bay.
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Start of Lobster fishing season in the Magdalen Islands
Début de la saison de la pêche au homard ~ Iles de la Madeleine
Taken on August 16, 1992... a murky Sunday where there wasn't a breath of wind to disturb the black flies. I was using my Pentax 6x7 loaded with Kodak Gold 100 film and spent the entire afternoon here. Rain that was forecast for late afternoon held off until well after dark, giving me a chance to blow through a dozen rolls of film, at ten exposures / roll. The bugs were relentless but the lighting so good that I put up with them. I had put bug dope only on my ears and that helped greatly. I was using a Pentax 55mm f/4 lens that gave me a pretty wide view, the normal lens for the camera being a 105mm. It must have been between fishing seasons (herring and lobster), because there were a great many boats hauled ashore for maintenance or painting. Jacob Boy is a "Cape Islander" a favorite among folks in the commercial fishing industry. In November of 2013 Jacob Boy and another boat were torn from their moorings in Alma, New Brunswick during a storm and driven ashore. Looking at a news article photo, it appeared to be in good shape. I've seen later images showing it on the water so it must have been repaired and resumed fishing. After an entire evening of searching I FINALLY found some information about this classy Cape Islander. It presently ashore at West River Camping, in West River New Brunswick. It evidently is being turned into "something"... exactly what, I don't yet know. I'll find out, but I'm fairly certain her fishing days are over.
Pentax 6x7 (MLU version), SMC Pentax 6x7 45mm f4 lens, Kodak Gold 100 color negative 120 roll film. This was copied using a Nikon D3500 camera, 55mm f/3.5 Micro Nikkor lens fitted with a Nikon 4T closeup lens, with a Soligor 1.6x achromatic closeup lens on the 4T. Lighting was provided by a 5000K LED bulb in a desk lamp.
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A fisherman checks his pots for lobster in the shelter of the Galley Head.
To the right is part of Dundeady Castle.
'The castle was built in 1215 by Nicholas Boy de Barry who also built nearby Timoleague Castle. In the year 1260 Dundeady was broken down by Finghin Reanna Roin son of Domhnall Got Mac Carthaigh. It seems to have been rebuilt again soon afterwards as it is recorded that it was besieged during the Rebellion Wars of the early 1640s. Dundeady Castle is on private property so it can only be viewed from the roadside. Standing for 805 years it makes it one of the oldest castles in West Cork that is still in existence.'
- local historian, Barry Jordan
The castle was built on the site of an earlier O'Cowhig fort. There are still Cowhigs living in the area.
Galley Head Lighthouse was built in 1875, during the heyday of lighthouse building. When it was first constructed, it was the most powerful lighthouse light in the world.
The lighthouse was converted to electric operation in 1969 and automated in 1979.
Curtis, a lobster fisherman from Sally's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, caught a whopper of a lobster. He proudly posed for this photo with his “prize” after nearby fishermen motioned for me to join them at the boats when they saw me taking photos nearby. Curtis gave permission to post this photo on Flickr. Curtis and his commercial crew caught 400 pounds of lobster that morning. The lobster fishery is regulated. I am sure that this lobster was headed for the fanciest restaurant in New England. I removed the safety bands over the lobsters’s incisors in photoshop for posting; they were on for the photo shoot. In summary, hats off to this group of friendly, engaging, joking, commercial fishers from Newfoundland and Labrador!!