Greenville Moose Tour and Wildlife Cruise With Mooseland Tours

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Greenville Moose Tour and Wildlife Cruise
Our Moose tours were cancelled for 2006. We are still planning to reopen late in the spring of 2007, and tours will leave from the Norway area. We are only booking one Greenville trip a month -- during June and July. Please watch for details and make reservations as soon as possible. ( If your group of 10-20 would like more information on this trip please call or email us and ask for charter information. Your would be able to select your own date.)

We leave Norway, Maine, about 8 am. The trip takes approximately three and a half hours, slightly longer if we encounter construction. Because Maine has two seasons, winter and construction, I think we will be taking the turnpike to Newport and then go north from there.

This should get us into Greenville in plenty of time to eat lunch at one of several great restaurants, many of which have a view of Moosehead Lake. There will be a generous amount of time for shopping or walking around before riding north to Rockwood for the cruise.

This flying moose can be seen on the way to Rockwood

Once we arrive at The Birches, we will board "The Discovery", a pontoon tour boat that holds up 20 passengers. Occasionally, if we have a smaller group and the weather is calm, they may take us on one of the smaller pontoon boats (which hold about 12 passengers). The tour boat operators share lots of information about the lake and the area, point out many interesting landmarks, and offer a few antidotes as well.  Weather permitting, we are taken around the back of Mt. Kineo to photograph the ledges.

We then cross to the estuary and slowly explore the winding waterways where we often spot moose in the water (as well as onshore). Other wildlife we might see are deer, bears, geese, cormorants, ducks, herons, kingfishers, and American bald eagles.

Tangled roots and stumps adorn the banks The water ways are filled with wonderful scenery... graceful "ghosts" of trees long dead lean out here and there, offering sharp contrast to the often lush mossy banks. Great gnarled roots hold up tall, dark balsams and the balsam scent drifts out to greet us as we pass. Some of the skeletons of trees lay in the water looking very much like alligators, or protrude upright pretending to be a bull moose with antlers even! Others have become the base for whole minute ecosystems with moss, flowers, grasses and probably a bird nest or two.

The lake, and the weather which Maine is famous for, changes with the season. It's not always sunny. It might be overcast, misty, raining, warm, or cool. Thankfully, the Discovery does offer respite from the weather, however, so as you might gather, it is truly a wonderful experience. I never go away disappointed. It fills me with wonder, leaves me with (as the song goes) a peaceful, easy feeling........

After the cruise we will stop in Greenville again for a brief rest stop and then return to Norway, arriving back here about 11-11:30 pm. (It will be possible to make rest stops going or coming, as necessary) And again, while riding to and from Rockwood and while leaving Greenville, it should be very likely we will see moose!

I can't guarantee anything, but I expect to see "more than a few moose" on these trips!

I hope you join us!

Contact Us email brenda@mooselandtours.com
Call 207-998-2198 or cell number 207-393-7256. Please ask for Brenda


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