As 2008 draws to a close, we at the Maine Island Trail Association wanted to express our sincere gratitude for your support over the past year.

If you weren't able to get out to the islands as much as you'd hoped this summer, please allow us to bring a little bit of the Trail directly to you.

Please click on the movie below (or click here to view full-screen) and enjoy some images that remind us of what makes Maine's islands unique and so valuable to us.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy 2009!

Sincerely,


Doug Welch
Executive Director

From Peter Adams, Board Chair

As a long-time resident of Maine and an avid boater, I deeply appreciate our beautiful coastline, its wild islands, and MITA's crucial role in providing protection and access to its sites along the 350-mile water trail.

Every year the Maine Island Trail Association posts over 80 logbooks on islands up and down the coast. They are placed on the trail for users to comment, draw, write prose, and record their visit. At MITA, this information is used to compile usage trends and understand visitor demographics. During the fall, staff and volunteers dutifully enter everything into a database - and each year, as the boating season comes to an end, we find ourselves more inspired than ever by our members and the islands we are all working to protect.

From Hells Half Acre - Stonington
Hell? More like heaven! Wonderful weather, wonderful way to teach our children stewardship of the land…(the potty thing was truly a subject of discussion) but we kayaked, swam, explored and had a great two days. Thanks MITA