Driving up to Camden, Maine I was blown away with the countryside. We in the Pacific Northwest fawn over the historic town of Port Townsend with its waterfront main street of brick buildings and ocean at its feet. Wellll….every town in central coastal Maine is like that: Bath, Wiscasset, Boothbay, Rockland, Rockport, Camden. Everywhere you turn there is another “Port Townsend” with a rocky coast to sweeten the view in the foreground and a set of islands off shore.
After setting up camp, I strolled the waterfront of Camden small harbor. Schooners on the port; schooners on the starboard; topsail schooners, gaff rigged schooners, staysail schooners and was told that eight schooners call Camden homeport. And that almost every town has its own collection of schooners. And the time to be here is Labor Day Weekend during the Windjammer Festival to see the whole lot
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