A gift for the person who has everything, perhaps?
Your own private deserted island, 16+ acres with 1+ miles of Maine open ocean coastline.
The island has been in my family since 1970. My elderly parents are trying to sell it so they can finally retire! Check it out on eBay!
The town of Machias is on the Maine coast appx. 50 miles from the border of the US and New Brunswick at Calais. The island is off Machiasport, a peninsula that juts southward into the ocean from Machias.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me or leave comments here.
(photo of my niece Willamina)
Link at eBay. More pics on Flickr.
Best of luck
Uhm maybe because its a individuals blog and he can put whatever he feels like on here?
If I had the money, I would SO buy this. I always wanted an island. :)
Somehow I missed your last question. I think perhaps that your comment got stuck in the moderation queue.
So, yes - the memories of the place are wonderful. I think the first time I went I was in fifth grade. The sound of ocean, the salt air, the foghorn are all burned into my mind. I love it up there.
Some other memories:
The green shimmering curtain of the northern lights. Views of the Milky Way galaxy unpolluted by light. With the lack of light pollution, one can even see satellites orbiting at times.
Another amazing thing was the incredible shortwave radio reception we can get there at night - so many channels from so many places that barely touching the dial would produce lock into another transmission. We'd sit be the campfire at night and listen to Radio Moscow and the BBC and Voice of America and dozens of other wonderful cultural transmissions. I've never been able to get shortwave radio reception as good as that anywhere else.
As far as my impression of the size of the island goes, having married a foreigner in 1991 my vacation time throughout the 90s was mostly spent in my wife's country (Thailand). Because of that I personally didn't visit the island for appx. 10 years. Upon returning after that hiatus, I was actually surprised to find it BIGGER than I had remembered it. Its size is something the photographs don't give justice to. The fact that it has more than a mile of ocean frontage might hint at its size. It is big enough that even with 9 of us camping, it's possible for everybody to be off on their own doing something, out of view of everybody else.
Happy times!
I wish I could afford to buy it from my folks, but alas, my fortunes disappeared along with the dotcom bubble. Those sure were the days, huh? hehe