The view from the cabin deck takes in the sandy crescent of Goose Cove, bounded by a boreal forest on either end. A sea breeze, passing through the evergreens, picks up the sweet scent of pine balsam. A necklace of seaweed traces the tide’s high-water mark. The deep pink flowers of Rosa rugosa peep out from the shrubbery that covers the dunes. Shafts of sunlight spill onto the silvery expanse of Penobscot Bay and its archipelago of rock-bound islands.
Just offshore, a million-dollar Hinckley Picnic Boat rides at anchor. Next to it, a weathered commercial-fishing boat off-loads some of the day’s catch for chef Devin Finigan’s tasting menu. She will serve it that night at Aragosta, Finigan’s fine-dining restaurant that also lends its name to the forested 21-acre property in Deer Isle, Maine. There are a dozen guest cottages and suites among the spruces leading up from the cove.
