Monday, August 6, 2012

Mucscongus Bay - Franklin Island Lighthouse and Harbor Island

The Muscongus Bay is the body of water between Pemaquid Point and Monhegan Island.  Bounded on the west by the Pemaquid peninsula and on the east by the Georges Islands, it is where Maine began in 1605.
Franklin Island  lighthouse click on pix to enlarge

Harbor Island

Pemaquid
routes through Muscongus Bay . The star above Allen I. is Georges Harbor - site
of the first sustained anchorage in Maine - by Capt. George Weymouth in 1605