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Leeches are nothing to fear. We grew up swimming in many a river with them. Get one on ya and pull him off. No big deal........bring a salt shaker with you and sprinkle a little salt on them...saute for 30 seconds and you've got yourself a delicacy! (seriously though, salt will shrink the little buggas and they will fall off.) Every fresh water pond and river in this state has leeches. Here is a good list of waterfalls in the area. Thankfully most are within the 2 counties we call home.
Leeches are nothing to fear. We grew up swimming in many a river with them. Get one on ya and pull him off. No big deal........bring a salt shaker with you and sprinkle a little salt on them...saute for 30 seconds and you've got yourself a delicacy! (seriously though, salt will shrink the little buggas and they will fall off.) Every fresh water pond and river in this state has leeches. Here is a good list of waterfalls in the area. Thankfully most are within the 2 counties we call home.
What a fantastic list! I can't wait to see many of those falls in person......and I'd give swimming a shot, leaches or no leaches
You'll get leaches at all of those places. They will eat your flesh and you won't be happy. There is a reason people put in pools. They don't have leaches....
We have a pool and it can be pretty nice to have here in the south.......summer can be really long without one, but is it worth the trouble to have one in Maine? How many months use can you get out of one? It's a big expense and a lot of cleaning and chemicals when you can only use it for a short time. I think I'd just look for swimming holes!
Way back when we used to frequent (if I remember name correctly) Atwoods Quarry. It was in St. George or Tenants Harbor, maybe Port Clyde, I think. Might be wrong on location, maybe someone in area can verify because I'd like to visit it again when I venture out that way. Don't think I could find it again without help.
It was/is a huge rock quarry with rock ledges you jump off into the water. Don't know if its still there or still accessible to public????
It had fresh clean water and no leeches
Way back when we used to frequent (if I remember name correctly) Atwoods Quarry. It was in St. George or Tenants Harbor, maybe Port Clyde, I think. Might be wrong on location, maybe someone in area can verify because I'd like to visit it again when I venture out that way. Don't think I could find it again without help.
It was/is a huge rock quarry with rock ledges you jump off into the water. Don't know if its still there or still accessible to public????
It had fresh clean water and no leeches
Unfortunately, someone dies swimming in a quarry almost every year in Maine. There's one in Frankfort where several people have died over the years. Every time it happens people hoot and holler about closing it. They gate the road to it and every year someone hooks a chain up to it and rips it down. I guess it's the Darwin factor. If you aren't smart enough to be careful at a quarry, you don't survive. But, anyway, they are more dangerous than a beach.
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(seriously though, salt will shrink the little buggas and they will fall off.) Every fresh water pond and river in this state has leeches.
