{"id":630,"date":"2014-08-26T11:11:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=630"},"modified":"2014-08-26T11:19:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T15:19:15","slug":"sunset-cruising-on-casco-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Sunset Cruising on Casco Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-633\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Clark cruise photo\" width=\"602\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo.jpg 602w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo-452x300.jpg 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My husband, daughter, and I enjoyed a wonderful boat cruise aboard the Blue Nun motoring around Casco Bay last Tuesday evening courtesy of Steve and Chris McDuffie.\u00a0 They generously donated the trip as a raffle fundraiser for the Long Island Library and my husband won the prize.\u00a0 Steve asked us where we wanted to go and since we had never seen Portland Head and Two Lights from \u201cthe other side,\u201d we decided to boat down the coast to Cape Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was perfect with a warm breeze and clear skies. Chris surprised us with some delicious snacks and my husband was able to snap several beautiful photographs of the area. As I took in the surrounding landscape and wildlife with binoculars, my daughter quizzed Chris on the local history and happenings of the islands.<\/p>\n<p>On the return leg of the trip, we spotted the new Nova Star ferry coming in to dock at Portland\u2019s Ocean Gateway Pier and a friendly harbor seal poked his head up to check us out. Steve took us around the back side of Peaks Island and with one last look at Fort Gorges, we got back to Portland just in time to take in a lovely sunset. We all had a marvelous time. Thank you to the McDuffies for making a two-hour boat ride such a memorable occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Clark, Raymond, ME (with photographs by Craig Clark)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo-of-Steve-and-Chris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-634\" src=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo-of-Steve-and-Chris.jpg\" alt=\"Deborah Clark cruise photo of Steve and Chris\" width=\"615\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo-of-Steve-and-Chris.jpg 615w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo-of-Steve-and-Chris-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Deborah-Clark-cruise-photo-of-Steve-and-Chris-497x300.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband, daughter, and I enjoyed a wonderful boat cruise aboard the Blue Nun motoring around Casco Bay last Tuesday evening courtesy of Steve and Chris McDuffie.\u00a0 They generously donated the trip as a raffle fundraiser for the Long Island Library and my husband won the prize.\u00a0 Steve asked us where we wanted to go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/?p=630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunset Cruising on Casco Bay<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,256,18,74],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-casco-bay","tag-cruise","tag-fundraiser","tag-long-island-community-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liclblog.townoflongisland.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}