How about swimming areas in Eastern Maine-Augusta Area?
Former Member
I will be driving through there in the next few days and i see all this water on the map. Are there any good lakes/rivers for swimming. And as a nod to the Old Orchard Beach lifeguards, by "swim" I mean go out "over my head" and move via stroking (and some kicking) for at least 1/2 mile in each direction...yes really... I don't mind if there are or aren't lifeguards (except when I have to help them "rescue" me from swimming in water over my head after I told them that was where i was going and they agreed...)
I'm guessing there are not many open water swimmers in this state but if anyone passed thorugh and found a great place to swim...
Parents
Former Member
Well, if you were by the Kanc... highway, then you could have gone about 15 minutes south on Rte 16 from the Kanc and you would have come to Lake Chocoura (sp?) The lake is about 3/4 mile long and maybe 1/4 mile wide with a tiny island in one place. If you'd start from the "public beach" and keep away from the weedy shoreline, you'd easily have room for a 1 mile swim in warm and clear H20 with great scenery around you. Sorry you missed it.
Well, if you were by the Kanc... highway, then you could have gone about 15 minutes south on Rte 16 from the Kanc and you would have come to Lake Chocoura (sp?) The lake is about 3/4 mile long and maybe 1/4 mile wide with a tiny island in one place. If you'd start from the "public beach" and keep away from the weedy shoreline, you'd easily have room for a 1 mile swim in warm and clear H20 with great scenery around you. Sorry you missed it.
