Joy Cove 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.

Rockland, Maine is the geographic center of the mid-coast region, which makes easy day tripping to LL Bean in Freeport, Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, and every town in between. All along mid-coast Maine you'll discover seaside resorts, charming villages, glacier-carved peninsulas, and grand panoramas of the Penobscot Bay and Atlantic Ocean. While on your Maine vacation, you can go antiquing, biking or kayaking, attend a country auction, browse seaside shops, and visit one of our many wonderful museums including the Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center or the Owls Head Transportation Museum. Sightseeing for seals, puffins and dolphins is always a favorite.

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.

Dunoon is the seaboard gateway to the Scottish Highlands, including the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park. It is a great touring base with an excellent selection of accommodation, shops and eating places to choose from.

The Isle of Mull and the neighbouring island of Iona lie just off the west coast of Scotland, in the United Kingdom. From Oban, on the mainland, where many visitors arrive on their way to Mull and Iona, the seaward view is dominated by the rocky peaks and green slopes of the Mull mountains.

Loch Ness is undeniably one of the most famous lakes in the world. It is also, certainly, a place of outstanding natural beauty, but it has to be admitted that the world wide fame of Loch Ness owes more to the legend of its famous occupant, the Loch Ness Monster - or 'Nessie' - than the breathtaking location of the loch itself.

Known as the "Gateway to the Isles". Oban nestles around its spectacularly beautiful bay, further protected by the Isle of Kerrera with Mull and Morvern beyond. The Town's popularity owes much to the intrepid Victorian travellers who came on steamers and later, by rail, to experience the charm and grandeur of the local scenery, and then just as now to visit peaceful Iona, Staffa together with the ancient historic castles of Dunollie, Dunstaffnage, Gylen and Duart.

Sleat is a peninsula on the Isle of Skye in the Highland council area Scotland. It is the home of the clan "MacDonald of Sleat". The name comes from Sleibhte, Scottish Gaelic for a plain, which well describes Sleat when considered in the surrounding context of the mainland, Skye and Rum mountains which all dominate the horizon all about Sleat.

Torridon is a small village in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. However the name is also applied to the area surrounding the village, particularly the Torridon Hills, mountains to the north of Glen Torridon.

Loch Kishorn is a sea loch in the north-west Highlands of Scotland, separating the Applecross peninsula from the Lochcarron area. It is about 1.5 km wide, and 4 km long. There is a cluster of small islands at the mouth of the loch, the largest of which is Kishorn Island.

Lochcarron is a village in Wester Ross, Highland, Scotland.

Sligachan is a small settlement on Skye, Scotland. It is close to the Cuillin mountains and provides a good viewpoint for seeing Sgurr nan Gillean.

Loch Duich is a sea loch situated on the western coast of Scotland, in the Highlands.

Kensaleyre is scattered crofting settlement, part of a group of crofting settlements, clustered around the A87 road on the shore of Loch Snizort Beag on the Trotternish pensinsula in Isle of Skye, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

Craobh Haven is a small purpose-built village and sailing port on the west coast of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is situated on the Craignish peninsula.

Fort William is a fantastic place to enjoy your holiday - steeped in history, stunning scenery and loads of fun things to do. The area offers substantial outdoor pursuits such as horse riding, golf, fishing, mountaineering, watersports, canoeing, hillwalking, mountain biking and ski-ing in the winter months at Nevis Range Ski Centre or nearby Glencoe. As well as outdoor pursuits, if you want to take things a bit easier, Fort William has a fine choice of visitor attractions for you to enjoy.

Balquhidder Glen has it's origins lost in the mists of time, but Balquhidder has been important, probably since neolithic times. Below the Manse there are remains of a stone circle, the Pudreag Stone , and there is a Neolithic chambered cairn near further east. Don't miss 'Balquhidder Summer Music' a regular concert of Classical music in the beautiful setting of Balquhidder Church.

Tobermory is a beautiful small seaside town, the capital of The Isle of Mull, its colourful houses appear in many photographs. The perfect island for whale watching, eagle watching white sand beaches and a peaceful tranquil holiday.

Kinlochleven is a village in Lochaber, Highland, Scotland and lies at the eastern end of Loch Leven, a sea loch cutting into the western Scottish Highlands. To the north lies the Mamores ridge; to the south lie the mountains flanking Glen Coe.

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.