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Bailey Island, Maine

With a few exceptions, such as Mackerel Cove, you can’t get a good look at the interesting things on Bailey Island from paved roads.

We recommend the views from our three porches and from the windows of our dining room overlooking Little Harbor. Depending on wind and tide, there may be surf you are likely to remember. Lobstermen work these waters – and if you’ve ever been in a lobster boat, you’ll know why we call it work. We serve the results of such efforts Friday evenings at dinner. A variety of vessels pass, including sailboats, lobster and tuna boats.

Our invigorating air makes walking fun, so try a walk along the shoreline. On your way from Route 24 to Driftwood Inn, you passed a small, Episcopal Chapel at a bend in the paves road. This stands near an unpaved road leading downhill to the Giant Stairs. As you approach the ocean, you can see huge masses of rock between footpath and surf. There is a path so that you can descend and look at little tide pools or think about the visible effects of storm driven waves on the rocks. Footing is treacherous, so please be careful! You may want to continue southward along the footpath until you come to a sizable boulder resting on a concrete platform. This boulder bears a bronze plate acknowledging the gift of the “Giant Stairs” property and path to the town by Captain Henry Sinnett. For those of you who are unaware of what they are and why they have the name they do, the Stairs are giant boulders going down to the sea.

An unmarked path can be found in the bushes leading back to the main road, but since the footpath has never been leveled, retracing your steps back would be the safest route…for you and your clothing :)

After such an exploratory trek, you are likely to find other kinds of places to go on foot. This is the only one along the shoreline.