This is the latest look at the snow machine bridge next to our property. The years long battle between our local beaver contingent and the town’s road maintenance crew has intensified. The beavers, inspired by Putin no doubt, have responded to the crews culvert clearing work by knocking down bigger and bigger trees, building dams upstream, and a new den appears to be in process just to the left in background shown here.
The culvert under our road, shown at right and is to the right of the bridge shown in the image above, is now graced by a grating. The beavers were damming in the culvert so the crew has added this grating. The beavers now build a dam at the grating and the road crew comes and removes the beavers work every couple weeks.
We are not sure when the beavers will stop for the winter. We are awaiting a response from the snow machine club on any repairs to their bridge.
On a brief visit to the riverside in Bath, Maine, today. I found the dock where the full replica of the first ship built in North America is currently berthed. This is the Virginia. It is a painstakingly detailed re-construction of the boat built at the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River in 1607. The Colony was, I think, the second European settlement in North America (assuming Jamestown was the first and ignoring the suggestions that the Vikings or Norwegians also built settlements).
It was constructed to support the evacuation of the colony due to starvation. After landing in 1605, they survived a Maine winter or two with help from the local Indian inhabitants. At some point, the Indians stopped sharing food. I have not bothered to read the details and rather go with the conspiracy theories available, you know, like what we do now when pressured for facts to support what is going on.
