Bonny Chess Ledge Info, Maine

Surrounded on three sides by Acadia National Park and on the fourth by the Atlantic Ocean. This is a gentle place but never dull; a place of both innocence and deep sophistication. Bar Harbor is a renaissance town, a place for rebirth, well rounded and open minded.

Blue Hill area of Maine is rich with New England history, antiques, crafts, fine restaurants, inns, and art galleries, and an important summer cultural life. The charm of our small villages, their peninsula settings and water related activities have produced thriving year-round communities.

Camden, Maine is central to the coast, and convenient to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park for day tripping.

Castine is a small coastal village located on a peninsula in Maine's East Penobscot Bay region. The town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to two historic forts and more than 100 historic markers. The village streets are lined with beautifully restored homes and buildings representing 18th century architecture. Area restaurants, inns, art galleries, and gift shops offer the traveler additional activities.

Lincolnville Maine is a classic seaside village 10 minutes north of Camden. It is nestled on Penobscot Bay and is a welcoming destination for tourists.

A former center of the shipbuilding industry, Searsport on Penobscot Bay is best known for the excellent Penobscot Marine Museum. Visit the rock-bound coast in search of the many fine galleries, museums and antique shops or seek the whale-watching and sailing experience.

Southwest Harbor, Maine, is located at the southwestern entrance to Somes Sound on Mount Desert Island. It is often referred to as the quiet side of the island because it has a mellower pace and is an easy distance from the more tourist oriented and busy Bar Harbor, located on the Northeast side of the island. Southwest Harbor has some great shops, galleries and eateries worth checking out. Access to the offshore islands by boat can be found here as well.

It only takes a quick glance at the map to see that this broad swath of rocky shoreline and rolling countryside is indeed located at Coastal Maine's heart. A brief visit is all you'll need to learn that the Belfast area is nestled in Maine's heart in a more important way as well.

To the Northeast of Scotland lies a group of just over one hundred islands which make up the Shetland Islands. Although only 29 of them are populated, they have a lot to offer. The largest island is known as Mainland and here you will find stunning beaches, tall cliffs, sheltered alcoves and friendly people.

Lerwick is the capital and main port of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, located more than 100 miles (160 km) off the north coast of mainland Great Britain on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland. Lerwick is about 210 miles (340 km) north of Aberdeen, 230 miles (370 km) west of Bergen in Norway and 230 miles (370 km) south east of Tórshavn in the Faroe Islands.

Sumburgh Head is located at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. The head is a 100 m high rocky spur capped by the Sumburgh Head Lighthouse. The Old Norse name was Dunrøstar høfdi, it means "The Head onto the Thunderous Noise", referring to the noise of Sumburgh Roost. The cliffs are home to large numbers of seabirds and the area is an RSPB nature reserve.

Lunna Ness is an eight mile long, narrow finger of land that projects, almost accusingly, from Shetland's Mainland towards Yell and Fetlar. In a modern Shetland with its superb road network, Lunna Ness is about as remote a place as you will find in Shetland without catching a boat. And geography very nearly dictated that you had to.

Scalloway is the largest settlement on the North Atlantic coast of Mainland, Shetland. Until 1708 it was the capital of the Shetland Islands (now Lerwick, on the east coast of the Shetland Mainland).

Stonington is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.

Deer Isle is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,876 at the 2000 census. Notable landmarks in Deer Isle are the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the town's many art galleries.

Machias is located in Washington County, Maine and is best known as the site of the first naval battle in the American Revolution.

Newburgh is a town in Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,394 at the 2000 census.