FRIENDSHIP HARBOR, Maine -- The US Coast Guard calls kayaks "debris." No matter that that branch of the service deems a kayak little more than floating detritis. Being in one of these long, low, small ...

‘Damn it, Dad! Paddle with me! ” my 23-year-old son, Nick, complained not a few times from the front cockpit of our two-man kayak on a recent father-son kayak camping trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. So ...

Looking at possibly trying to step out of our routine and try some new things and wanted to see what experiences people have had along the maine coast regarding climbing and/or kayaking (through a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aug. 29—While searching for an island campsite near the ruins of a submerged village in western Maine's Flagstaff Lake the other ...

meskin1@jeflin.tju.edu Adventure Adviser: Most everyone that takes a course at Maine Island Kayak Company (MIKCO) is in the same boat as you are — they’ve never kayaked before. Based on Peaks Island, ...

IT IS A KAYAK EXCURSION - WITH A REGISTERED MAINE GUIDE... STEEPED IN MAINE HISTORY... A GUIDED TOUR OUT TO PHIPPSBURG'S "MALAGA ISLAND" WHERE,, A LITTLE MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO,, THE STATE FORCIBLY ...

Early each September, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Maine Office of Tourism and the American Lighthouse Foundation sponsor Maine Open Lighthouse Day. The event provides an opportunity for the public to ...

gregigi@apk.net Adventure Adviser: A couple of suggestions: Maine Island Kayak Company has a handful of guided, multiday paddling trips in mid- to late September. Choose from a two-day paddle/camping ...

ON a foggy Friday morning in July, a van hauling a trailer full of Crayola-colored sea kayaks backed onto a small beach in Naskeag, Me., at the far end of a long point southwest of Bar Harbor. Out ...

Larry Merrill of Orrington carries his kayak to the water before taking a paddle for the 301st consecutive month in Maine. Merrill says people often ask whether the "Paddle harder" message on his ...

Retired academic Deborah Walters has kayaked all across North America, from the freezing waters of Northern Canada to the mosquito-laden Florida Everglades. But now, she is about to face the biggest ...