Penobscot Bay, Maine.
1896 
June 20
  Left Boston at 5 p.m. yesterday by Bangor Boat reaching 
Rockland at 4.30 this morning and starting at 5.30 by the Mt. Desert 
boat for Green's Landing which we reached at 9 a.m. Capt. Conary 
and Watrous were waiting for us on the wharf and as soon as my 
luggage had been transferred we set sail for Sunshine in Conary's boat 
a pretty little sloop 26 ft. in length.
  The day was clear and warm, the water calm and the
breeze so light that we were over an hour in reaching our
destination (a distance of six miles by water).  On the way 
we saw two Common Terns, about a dozen Herring Gulls, and four 
or five Double-crested Cormorants, then cast sitting on buoy poles very erect and still.
  On reaching Sunshine we took room at Mrs. Olive Emerson whose family 
consists of two unmarried boys Benjamin Bufkin and Alan Emerson (half brothers) both fishermen.  Capt. Conary, our
skipper, married one of their daughters & he and his wife will be 
added to this household during our stay. He is only twenty two 
years of age but is said to be an excellent boatman.
  Sunshine is on Stinson's neck separated from Dear Island proper by a bar flooded at very high tides.
Our house is situated near the heart of a clearing of from 8 or 10 
acres which slopes gently up from the cove and on the other 
three sides is bounded by dense [delete]spruce[/delete] evergreen woods composed 
chiefly by black spruces but with a fair number of white spruces 
(called here skunk or cat spruces) and a good many balsams. Many 
of the trees are 40 to 50 feet in height and one which had been 
cut down measures 23 inches across the top of the stump but 
by far the greater number are about 25 to 30 ft in height & 
8 to 12 inches in diameter at the base. In places they grow 
thickly together and as a rule each tree has sufficient space to 
have retained living lateral branches down to the ground and 
throughout the woods there are frequent openings of varying 