I come from Deer Isle, Maine, one of the largest islands amongst a great number in the archipelago of Penobscot Bay.
Our windows look over tiny Hard Head island, still segregated to this day — cormorants populating its northern shores and gulls to the south.
Even smaller is Two Bush island, which is so small that its area is twice as great at low tide as it is at high tide. A local spring tradition is the preservation or destruction of the islands’ namesake flora. “Just hain’t right Mabel, there’s a third bush!”
Isle Au Haut is really quite low. Vinyl Haven (or Vinalhaven as the cartographers insist) always has that “new island smell”. I have indeed seen a bald eagle on Eagle island, but never butter on Butter, nor a porcupine on either of the Porcupines, nor sheep on Sheephead.
And unlike your historical account, mine is quite a bit more truthful :-)
Ayuh.
