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Originally Posted by tgbs9114

"...Went for a slow cruise into Winter Harbor last Friday 8/28 and went to the left ( don't know the name of coves )..."

Winter Harbor is 95% surrounded by the Town of Wolfeboro.

I call that narrow inlet abutting Rt. 109, "Tuftonboro Bay". (The antique map that appears regularly in the center of The Weirs Times calls it that—maybe because it is totally surrounded by the Town of Tuftonboro?

Thinking about it some more, Winter Harbor is far less of "a harbor" than Tuftonboro Bay is of being "a bay". With one being wind-swept, and the other calm, shouldn't they be named "Winter Bay" and "Tuftonboro Harbor"?

Originally Posted by Grant

I've always wanted to see one dart by underwater while diving. It would probably startle the hell of me, but it would be cool. I have seen one dart by off the front of the dock, but didn't realize exactly what I saw until it surfaced a little later.

There was a professional photographer's website with many underwater pictures of Loons. This site isn't it, but this photo appears there:



(A torpedo with feet!)

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

Yup,I'm another one that heads out on the water on my PWC and aims at loons...and kids...and....give me a break with generalizations.Why wouldn't the post read "just another reason to dislike the kayak folks" for their scaring the loons into boat traffic lanes?

While kayaks pass by the Loons too closely, the Loons seem to have accepted people in kayaks. (Not a good thing to me).

This particular "Loon protection area" has no place to exceed headway speed: every part is within 150' feet of some shoreline, docks, signs, rafts, rocks, docked boats or boats at anchor. There isn't any "boat travel lane" for a lo-o-o-ng distance from the Loon-protection area.

Originally Posted by tis

"...It appeared on July 15th which is late, as they usually appear around July 4th...but the kayakers get close to them and "drive" them which scares them out of a safe place into the middle of boat travel...And speed boats don't often watch for them either. Someone on a jet ski tried to hit the baby the other day but fortunately missed..."

The Lake started to get very windy later in the morning yesterday, so I cruised by that peaceful area about Noon.

You can't possibly miss seeing those Loons and their one chick. (And it IS late for a chick of that age).

Every so often, the parents' warning call echoes throughout the area. It's startling—and LOUD!

While there, a yellow Jet-Ski pulled a "hole-shot" very close to the chick—and my boat —and failed to observe the 150' rule from shore and two anchored boats with swimmers.

(One anchored boat had their Lab circling their boat).

Winnmiir Apartments needs to put up a sign at their docks to warn their residents about Loon protection efforts in the area—and to observe the Lake's rules. As it is, there are too few peaceful areas for Loon nests and where they can bring up their young.