Recognize this Snowy Scene in Southern Maine?

I know this snowy scene in Southern Maine. It is Chauncey Creek, Kittery Point, Maine.

My husband and I laughed one day when we were on our way to do CrossCountry Skiing at Fort Foster. We passed Chauncey Creek and saw a photographer taking a picture of THIS. We looked back as we passed and said..."You know...this is a beautiful spot, somebody else likes it is as well!" I wonder if it was your photographer!
My husband and I grew up in Kittery. He is a lobsterman. We cook our lobsters at home therefor, have never eaten at Chauncey Creek. We have said for years....someday we have to eat there because people have come for miles to have Maine Lobsters. We pass by in the summer to go to Seapoint Beach, clamming at Brave Boat Harbor, and all year to Fort Foster. We love our home and were very excited that Chauncey Creek was featured in your magazine. NOW we must eat there :)
Angela and Gary Hayward
Kittery, Maine

The scene is Chauncey Creek in Kittery Point, Me. I take my Duffy 35 to the Chauncey Lobster Pier at least a dozen times over the summer. I can moor at the restaurant from an hour before high tide until an hour after high tide. It is a real treat to transit the beautiful creek and have a nice lobster onboard my boat. The owners, the Spinneys are great people and make boaters feel very welcome. Cheers,

Paul Howard
Stratham, NH

My husband and I moved to Kittery last March, and worked hard at getting ourselves settled in so that we could explore the area and take adavantage of the great kayaking. I have a favortie walking route that takes me past the Chauncy Creek Lobster House (featured in your most recent Down East), Fort Foster and down to Seapoint Beach, where the dogs party on a regular basis all year long. Most of the time I take my camera with me, since there is so much that I want to capture..and keep. We have kayaked over to Chauncy Creek for lunch when the tide is in, and got a charge out of a couple of New Yorkers who were taking our picture as we paddles home. Maybe next year, we'll appear in Down East!

(oops!) Posted by Betsy Wish (Kittery, ME)

My wife and I vacationed in Georgetown, ME this past summer at the Coveside B&B. This looks like the view from the edge of their property. The popular lobster shack would be Five Islands Lobster Company which appeared in a Lexus commercial a few years back.

Dan & Kelly
Wilmington, DE.

Chauncey Creek, Kittery Point. If you have ever been in this area, how could you ever forget it. Here or the access roads to and from Kittery or the Yorks. This route has been a well kept secret as long as I can remember and that goes back to the late 40's when we used to opt for that route in lieu of "busy US 1". Thanks for acknowledging Southern Maine! Bruce and Kay Wilson, Miami/Ogunquit

The snowy scene in Down East is Chauncey Creek.
We pass this way many times as we live in Kittery, ME. Glen and Diana Crowell, Kittery ME.

The snowy scene in Down East is Chauncey Creek in Kittery Point Maine. We have been by this point many times as we live in Kittery ME.
Diana and Glen Crowell
Kittery ME.

The picture shows Chauncy Creek in Kittery Point of course with the lobster shack in foreground and shoreline of Gerrish Island in background. The picture is taken looking toward Pepperell Cove and Navy yard beyond. Many a wonderful picnic with lobster we have had here over the years. I grew up in nearby Eliot, Maine and now vacation with my family every summer in Acadia National Park. It is always a delight to head to Kittery Point and Sea Point Beach. Another treat is to kayak or sail around Gerrish Island towards Fort Foster at the Southern End. Fort Foster is also a wonderful place to hike, swim, or look for sand dollars. Wish I was there now. Deborah Nelson

It is the last house on hodgdon Island before going across the Sawyers Island bridge in boothbay me

I have the identical view hanging in my kitchen except the photo was shot at the peak of fall foliage. It is Chauncey Creek in Kittery Point. When the tide is favorable and the mosquitos minimal, I take my boat or kayak right past this spot on the way into and out of Portsmouth Harbor, just around the tip of Gerrish Island, there on the left. The Kittery Land Trust is shouldering a huge and wonderful task of raising funds to complete the purchase and protect the 16 acre, wooded parcel on the far side in this picture. The landowner has been very generous, selling his development rights to KLT at below market rate. Now KLT, the town of Kittery, local citizens and the Mount Agamenticus to to Sea Conservation Initiative are joining with other partners to raise needed funds to preserve the heavily wooded site. Its an ecological gem, with 2000 feet of frontage on the creek.

This picture is of Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier, Kittery Point, Maine. It has become a yearly stopping point for my family on the way home from Jackson NH after watching the Quackfest on Memorial day weekend. What a great way to spend Memorial day weekend...sitting in the quaint village of Jackson, observing the yearly Quackfestival and then driving to the coast of Maine for a geat lobster dinner with the most beautiful view. Can't think of a better way to start the summer season!

The Haleys
Pembroke, ma

I finally could answer the "Where in Maine?" monthly question only to discover many other people could too! I guess that is a good thing since Chauncey Creek is an amazing place and so well preserved despite its popularity. It reminds me that I must take my family there in the spring...
Elizabeth Wrigley
Wells, Me

This is the scene of many delicious meals - the Chauncey Creek Lobster Pound in Kittery Point. The land across the creek has just been protected by the Kittery Land Trust so that beautiful veiw will never change! But the land trust still needs to raise some money for this project. If you would like to help, go to http://www.kitterylandtrust.org/

This picture is of Chauncey Creek Lobster Pound on Chancey Creek- naturally! We, like Angela, usually cook our lobsters at home, but one time when we had friends visiting from 'away' we took them there. They just loved it! What I like is you can bring all the fixings with you, including a bottle of wine, and enjoy the wonderful spot!

Before I even read the hint at the end I had a suspicion it was Chauncey Creek. Growing up in southern Maine, this was a place we visited on a regular basis. Now, as an adult who no longer lives in Maine, I love taking my children to Chauncey Creek when we visit my family that still lives in the area.

Southern Maine will always be my TRUE home!!

Sarah in CT

It's Chauncey Creek in Kittery Point, ME where my husband grew up and where his mother, who taught school at the Frisbee school for years, used to take us for a scrumptious lobster roll at the restaurant on the creek every time we visited her. She's 90 now and still lives independently in Kittery Point and when we visit her in the fall, we always stop for another lobster roll if the restaurant is still open.

Jean Archibald, Grant Valkaria, FL

Obviously I'm not the first to recognize Chauncey Creek! My wife and I relocated to Kittery ten years ago from Washington D.C. and drive by often with the kids on our way to Seapoint Beach & Fort Foster. We take friends and relatives to the Lobster Pound when they visit. My brother in D.C. sent me a clipping from the Washington Post a couple of years ago where the author wrote of "discovering" the lobster pound. When asked to do a school report on different cultures in places the students had visited, there along side Tibet, Peru and the Tuscany my neice in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland presented the exotic local of Kittery Maine where the natives eat hard shelled sea creatures!

Tom Emerson, Kittery, ME

From the description, I would have guessed Kittery although I couldn't identify the lobster shack. We have vacationed in Maine for several years but never visited this area. Glad now to know the name of the restaurant. I guess the best lobster rolls are in the name of the consumer. I think the best we've had was in Stonington at a restaurant that I don't recall the name.

I am guessing Chauncey Creek. We look forward each year to vacationing and visiting relatives in Kittery Point. Each morning, we usually go along Chaucey Creek to go over to Fort Foster for our morning walk.

David & Shelley Byrd
Roanoke, Virginia

Sitting on our boat in Sunny Titusville, Florida, my husband Eric and I concurred that the scene is Chauncy Creek in Kittery Pt. Maine. Formally from Portsmouth, NH, we had docked our boat in Kittery and spent many a weekend kayaking the shores of Kittery. Although we miss the beauty of Maine, we adore the gentle winters of Florida. Hello to all our friends!

My husband and I quickly recognized one of our favorite haunts-Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier. At this unique restaurant we have enjoyed many lobster rolls and bowls of fresh mussels at their outdoor, on-deck dining area. We love the location in Kittery and hope to retire just down the road in Portsmouth, NH. Ellen Barber, Bedford, NH

It has to be Chauncy Creek in Kittery Point. If not it's sure a look alike :-)

Wonderful to see all of the sharp eyes that recognize this as Chauncy Creek! But even more specifically, you're looking at the backside of the Parady's bait shack on Chauncey Creek! As a kid, Mr Parady, a local lobsterman and very generous man, use to let me keep my row boat in that little space of water you can see between the dock and the bait shack. My father now keeps his dorry in that spot during the warm months.

Aaron Gowell
Boston

What a coincidence. I was just on the phone earlier today talking with my in-laws about their visit to Maine this summer. We are having a family gathering celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. The one event they asked to do was to have a Lobster Feast at Chauncey Creek Lobster Pound.
I just happened to take a break after lunch and opened the Down East and as soon as I turned the page to "where in Maine" I recognized the view as being Cauncey Creek, albeit a winter view.
It's a fabulous place to have a lobster feed with an incredible view as you watch kayakers go by and the arrival of families by boat bringing coolers of snacks and drinks to go along with the lobster, clams and more that you can order.
My wife, daughter and I are really looking forward to visiting Chauncey Creek. It brings instant summer memories which is nice to have in mid February in Maine.

Chris Hopkins
Wells, ME

By the way... regarding Chris Hopkins message, the in-laws are from Bryn Mawr, PA. The other family members are from Edina Minnesota and Seattle WA... and we'll all be at Chauncey Creek Lobster Pound celebrating! How cool is that!
M.P. Hopkins
Wells, ME

It's Chauncey Creek! As soon as the mailman left I opened my Down East and saw that pic. I ran to my computer and found a beautiful summer picture of the exact same shot. Although I am a midwesterner I visit Maine every summer and always find my way to Chauncey Creek. It's just breathtaking. I managed to get a wooden lobster trap and buoys and ship them back home and they decorate my living room. Maine is always in my thoughts.

It's the "Creek House" as my dear friend who owned it, named it when he purchased it in the 70's and is located on Chauncey Creek right near the Chauncey Creek Lobster pound. I was born and raised in Kittery Point, am now a Seattle resident and my mom who still lives in Kittery Point, sends me a subscription to Down East every year. There are some months that I am so homesick for Maine that I cannot bear to open the magazine when it comes, I have to wait a few days!! We come back to visit every summer, and my children and husband love it! Sue DesJardins Burns

I was born, grew up and lived in Kittery most of my adult life and recognize the area as Chauncey Creek in Kittery Point. The trees across the water are part of Gerrish Island. In the distance is Pepperrell Cove and the shoreline on Pepperrell Road. In the summer lobsters can be enjoyed at the Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier, the "lobster shack" mentioned in the article.

Priscella Walker
Bethel, ME

I've lived in the "neighborhood" almost all my life. I especially remember one year with a "neap" tide so high that Ron Spinney, his father George, and I had to reset the pylons. We had to dig down in the muck and lay a flat rock as a base. Chauncey Creek is a "delicious" place to live, work and play....MRB

oops ,I meant "spring tide" the opposite of "neap" tide ...mrb

Seems pretty obvious at this point that the location is Chauncey Creek Lobster pound, Kittery Point, Maine! On a hot summer day - I've jumped for fun off the bridge into the Creek just around the corner from where the photo was taken! -Rebecca

I knew it was Chauncey Creek in Kittery as soon as I read "southern Maine" and "lobster shack." I've been there only once, more than ten years ago, but it is a great spot, and I remember it vividly. CI

CHAUNCEY CREEK..a favorite family haunt!! We bring our own wine and toast to my father-in-law who first brought us there early in our relationship! Without him...there would be no perfect husband for me!! Without him...there would be no funny memories of good times at Chauncey Creek every summer. This makes me want to drive the 4 hours just to see it in snow cover and laugh again about all of the good times. Thanks for making me smile on Valentines Day!

Lobster at Chauncey Creek is best enjoyed with a breeze (keeps the mosquitos down).

First "Where in Maine?" I recognized. We've been coming here for years. I grew up sailing out of New Castle; I've rowed up and down Chauncey Creek many times. I've enjoyed dodging boats in overcrowded Pepperrell Cove in the distance.

Well, I'd have to say that the picture is of my dock in Chauncey Creek. My father, Bill Parady Jr. and my grandfather, Bill Parady Sr. built it in 1960 and, my father lobstered from here for 40+ years.My father and I also lobstered together from here for 14 years. In 2003, my father retired and sold out of the lobster fishery. Now, I lobster from this very location myself,from my 40 ft lobster boat, Angela & Ashley. My career as a Maine lobsterman has spanned a period of 28 years.So, not only did I grow up playing at this location as a boy , I now own the property and continue to carry on an old family tradion.Thank you for the great photo and the chance to comment Down East Magazine, Brad Parady F/V Angela & Ashley

Hi Paul,

This is right across the street from my old friends Tom and Jonel Leake in Kittery Point. I have many good memories of paddling kayaks, swimming and boating on Chauncey Creek. We spent many a day on Gerrish Island picnicing at Fort Foster Beach as a kid and running the cross country course while in high school. Paddling out from this point you come into the Piscataqua River and just upriver is the Portsmouth Navel Shipyard. This is one of those very special places for me and I miss it and Maine very much.

Mike Andrews
Genoa, IL

I knew right away when I saw that picture. It's our beloved Chauncy Creek in Kittery Point. It is exactly the location that convinced my wife and I (before we had children)to move back to New England. We were visiting friends of ours in Newburyport, MA; where incidently we now live, and had the most tremendous outing here. I decided then and there that we needed to be back East 'living the dream.' We have been back now for six years and an opportunity to take out-of-town guests to Chauncy Creek is never missed.

Christian Sava

I first came to Southern ME with a college friend from Eliot, ME. For years I went to Ft. Foster (even before it was a park I confess), Seapoint Beach and all the other beautiful places in the Kittery area to kayak, walk my dog and enjoy the ocean. I drove past Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier for many years and ironically first went there about 6 years ago when I was living in NH with a friend from Boston(to celebrate her dog's Birthday).As of 2006 I am exceptonally fortunate to have been able to move to Kittery Point and live 1.7 miles from the lobster pier. I always go to Chauncey Creek with any guests who come to my home. I regret all the summers I missed :-)

Marleen Szymanski
Kittery Point, ME

Hi,
Chauncy's Creek in the winter, nothing finer. A shipmate of mine just handed me the magazine, I opened it and immediately was taken back to our summer house on Gerrish Island (across the creek) next to the Delano's. Being in Kuwait right now, it sure is nice to gaze on that scene which will grace the "walls" of our tent Operating Room here at the Navy expeditionary medical facility in Kuwait. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
Joe O'Brien
Norfolk, VA
(currently Kuwait)

This has to be Chauncy's Creek. I grew up in Kittery Point, in fact our former house was to the right, in a cove. My father, Dana Knight anchored his lobster boat, the "Nandales" at the beginning of Chauncy Creek. I do remember the Spinny's, and the store going towards Sea Point Beach, where you could buy a ice cream cone for 10 cents. At a young age I can remember swimming from our dock to the Fort Foster bridge many times. I treasure my visits home every year. Thank you for sharing the wonderful memories. Nancy Knight Darst. nmkdarst62@bellsouth.net

I selected this magazine from the rack today after reading the one that I got in my Christmas stocking. When I opened to the where in Maine? page, I realized right away that it is Chauncey Creek in Kittery Point, ME. It is one of the cleanest outdoor restaurants, the food is DELICIOUS, and the ATMOSPHERE is out of this world!!!

Many wonderful memories returned to me when I saw this photo of Chauncey Creek. I grew up about 1/4 mile away on Fernald's Cove. My dad, photographer Doug Armsden, took many photos of the lobster pound there, including one of a giant granddaddy of a lobster and an artful one of pots in the snow... It's been fun to see familiar names here. I sure miss Kittery Point. Gay Armsden g.armsden@gmail.com.

We immediately recognized one of our favorite fall lunch spots - Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier! During the years we have vacationed in nearby Wells, my husband & I have enjoyed many excellent feasts of their well prepared mussels and a full helping of Maine atmosphere. In our opinion, there's no better way to enjoy a beautiful fall day than with lunch at "the Pier". Great food, great staff, great Maine!

S. Caldwell
Gananoque, Ontario, Canada

This snowy scene is in Chauncey Creek. As my family and grandparents were relaxing in Flordia during my school vacation, hearing about more snow falling at home and reading DownEast magazine, right away we figured out where this southern Maine winter scene was. My family used to frequent the resturaunt there several years ago, traveling by boat to get there to enjoy a night out in Maine.

Carol Messler
Durham, New Hampshire

My name is Nate Roberts. I am 8 years old - - I have visited my grandparents in Kittery Point for 8 years.

I am pleased to tell you that I know this place well. It is beautiful Chauncey Creek in Kittery Point, Maine. It is right next to the famous Chauncey Creek lobster pound.

I hope my parents and grandparents will take me to Chauncey Creek again next year.

Nate Roberts
Boca Raton, FL