Campground Life
Seining the Beach with Penobscot Bay Watch Director Ron Huber
Yesterday’s beach seine (a fine mesh net designed for live catches and research) survey at Searsport Shores Campground: One haul at low tide and one haul at high tide of the 60 foot beach seine. Results: 516 mummichogs at high tide. At low tide about 60 silversides and 4 crangon shrimp.
Read MoreNot Really MIA
The campground is still running on laughter, exploration, art projects and beach time…but I’ve been putting my writing energies into our other blog…Fiber College on Penobscot Bay. It’s an event we host each year for those who are interested in quilting, spinning, carving, knitting…and all that sort of thing. For the next few weeks, my…
Read MorePeek into my world:
It’s early afternoon, the temperature’s perfect, we’re making giant toadstools again tonight…and over my iced coffee I was thinking about the variety of questions I answered today: Where can I find orange, purple and green string? Where can I buy a bikini that’s not cut too high? I need shrimp…not cooked but kicking… Do you…
Read MoreA peek through Roy’s Camera
Roy takes great pictures. You may have read his posting a couple of week’s ago…and we wanted you to see a few more of his photos:
Read MoreJello Anyone?
Things are crazy busy these next couple of weeks…we’re filled with great families and lots of energy…but the energy is channeled into real life instead of computer life…so the next couple of postings will just be pictures…you fill in the narrative…Thank you 😉 Thursday there was a Jello Eating contest:
Read MoreOh What You Missed, Part 2
Greasers met hippies at the Searsport Shores Campground 1950s & 60s weekend, a fundraising event for the Pine Tree Camp of Rome, Maine. Part 2; Continued from last posting. Saturday featured an entire day of activities including a horseshoe tournament and a dunking booth where Bob, ever the good sport, splashed down in icy water…
Read MoreOh what you missed!
Greasers met Hippies at the Searsport Shores Campground 1950s & 60s weekend, a fund raising event for the Pine Tree Camp. Part One. Reported by Ken More than five hundred people participated in this past weekend’s events which raised more than $2300.00 for the Pine Tree Camp of Rome, Maine. For 65 years Pine Tree…
Read MoreSeining the beach
Yesterday, Ron Huber, executive director of Penobscot Bay Watch came to the campground to count the marine species that happened to be on our beach that afternoon. With the help of my Steve and camper Heather Nadeau from Mapleton, they seine netted 14 sand lances ranging in length from 2-6 inches in a 20 minute…
Read MoreRoy Paddled 10 miles Today…
There’s going to be a Harbor to Harbor paddle next week…so Roy decided to train a little bit, and he was kind enough to take these pictures as he went along. He started from the Searsport Shores Beach, paddled under the Passagassawakeag River Bridge in Belfast, then came back and paddled the shore to Northport…
Read MoreCamden: High and Low
Ken kindly fills in for me yet again as I keep up with our guests, gardens and goats…thanks Ken! Camden, Maine is an easy forty minute drive south from Searsport Shores. It’s a delightful place to visit for lunch and sightseeing. On this trip, we drive up the famous Mt. Battie Auto Road for spectacular…
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