CANADA lies before you. Just a few miles off rugged West Quoddy Head lies Grand Manan Island, with foggy cliffs, snug harbors, brightly colored fishing boats, and friendly people.
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Across Lubec Narrows lies Campobello Island, best know as the location of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s summer cottage. The cottage is now the centerpiece of an international park.
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Due north is the splendor of Passamaquoddy Bay, teeming with fish and birds, guarded by swift currents and whirlpools. The St. Croix River flows into Passamaquoddy Bay from the north, marking the border between the United States and Canada. It passes St. Croix Island, where Samuel de Champlain established the first European settlement north of St. Augustine, Florida, in 1604. The river empties into the bay between the Maine town of Robbinston and the Canadian resort of St. Andrews, founded by Loyalists some of whom barged their houses from Castine when they fled from the United States in the aftermath of the American Revolution.
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This is where Maine and the United States trickle to an end in the once bustling fishing communities towns of Lubec and Eastport. With the decline of the fisheries, they have turned to new endeavors: aquaculture, shipping, and tourism. Both communities flank the entrance to isolated Cobscook Bay, a haunt of eagles and seals.
Red text indicates changes in wording since the last edition of A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast. Our thanks to Robert Godfrey for these corrections.
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Copyright 2002 DIAMOND PASS PUBLISHING, INC.
A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast, Hank and Jan Taft, Curtis Rindlaub