Twentyone minutes of the sounds of Rockland-bound fishing boats and ferries passing the Owls Head Lighthouse in heavy fog, while waves from the restless Gulf of Maine wash against the stony beach below.

Penobscot Bay: foghorns and boats off Owls Head

People and sounds that are important parts of Penobscot Bay : its wild gulls, and bouldery landwash, the call and chant refrains of Penobscot Bay foghorns hard at work on fishing boats and lighthouses, on a socked-in morning. The thoughts, memoirs and plans of the people of the bay, from retired highliners to busy harbormasters and state and federal government officials under whose stewardship some aspect of Maine's biggest bay falls.

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Penobscot Bay: foghorns and boats off Owls Head

Penobscot Bay: foghorns and boats off Owls Head