Letterbox Name: Porter Preserve Letterboxes (3)
Letterbox Location: Lincoln County, Maine
Nearest Town: Boothbay, ME
Planted By: Shipwright
Planted On: 26 June, 2002

These are the first letterboxes that I have planted, and I have
chosen lovely Porter Preserve, on Barters Island, ME, as their
location. Porter Preserve is part of the Boothbay Region Land Trust,
a network of land and wildlife preserves throughout the Boothbay
Peninsula in Lincoln Country, Maine. Despite being located on an
island, the Preserve is easily accessed by automobile. Here are
the `official' directions to the Preserve, published by the Land
Trust trustees:

"Travel north on Route 27; take a left at the monument in Boothbay
Center onto Corey Lane. Proceed 0.3 of a mile. Bear right at the fork
onto Barters Island Road and travel 2.2 miles crossing two bridges;
bear left on West Side road, then take a left on Kimballtown Road.
Proceed 0.5 of a mile and turn left at the fork onto a dirt road. The
Porter Preserve is 0.1 of a mile up the dirt road on the right. There
is a parking area on the right. Please do not block the road as it is
used by other property owners."

And now for the Letterbox Clues:
From the Map-Kiosk in the parking area, take the White Trail
going Northwest. You will come to a low wall of fieldstones. Follow
the wall due South, passing four tall trees sprouting barbed-wire
branches. The first Porter Preserve Letterbox is among the
fieldstones at the southern base of the fourth tree.
Return to the White Trail and follow it going Northeast,
following it through a grove thick with white birches and past a
great uprooted tree on the left. You will come next to a large white
pine tree with spreading branches that bears the white blaze of the
trail look for a white triangle painted upon the trunk of a nearby
oak. At 340 degrees from this oak there is a forked tree; the second
letterbox looks out at the water at this forked tree's base.
Return to the White Trail, going South. You will come to an
oak tree that guards a four-way intersection of paths go East, past
a bevy of ferns and an old granite water-well on the right. When you
come to a fork in the trails, follow the Blue Trail to the Southwest,
coming to a vista overlooking the water. At 120 degrees from the
granite boulder on which you stand, pick up the Blue Trail once more
and, where rock meet loam, seek a small woodpile through the trees at
160 degrees. The third letterbox is in the woodpile on the western
side, just below the topmost row of logs.
From here, return to the White Trail and follow it through
the forest back to the parking area.