These are the traps that we spend so much time avoiding! Attached to rope and multicoloured buoys (personal to each lobsterman), they also have special links that break if a whale should get entan ...

I don't know if I would call this the funniest or most horrifying exhibit - an early design for a 'winged' airplane ...

My first trip on a float plane - a trip down memory lane for Andrez. The Falklands used DeHavilland Beavers for many years

This is as close as we got to mooses. The tracks were everywhere.

There were lakes, rivers and forest in all directions to every horizon.

We climbed and climbed until we skirted the eastern flank and crest, and could peer down at the hiking trails that follow the knife edge ridges - only 3 feet wide in places. Not for me!

There is, reportedly, a Bigfoot population in The Katahdin. If there was anything watching us , we didn't see it!

The foreshortening of the picture doesn't do justice to the gaps between the rocks, nor does it show the drop-off to the left into a waterfall!

Mt Katahdin is the highest mountain in Maine and at the centre if the Baxter State Park.

Every so often, we came across small tracts of open water populated by clouds of butterflies and dragonflies, frogs and purple irises.