Video Library

Kayaking the Mid-Coast marshes, beaches & islands

Here’s a look at some of the of great kayaking opportunities that you can experience with us. Rocky shoreline cliffs, and expansive beaches, a historic stone fort and steamship piers, lush marshes and creeks, islands of all shapes and sizes.

Flyfishing for stripers on the Kennebec flats

World class heart-pounding sight fishing for thick shouldered stripers in skinny water between 1-1/2 and 2-1/2 feet deep

spin fishing for stripers in mid-coast maine

Have a try at striper fishing in tight to the rocky ledges and surging water where the stripers love to hang out, slamming bait fish that are overpowered by the wave action.

Rowing an open-water single on the kennebec estuary

The 21 ft Wintech Explorer is an wonderfully capable open-water racing single. Its self-bailing cockpit allows it even to handle waves breaking across your back and flooding the cockpit. Under more sane conditions it’s just pure delight to row, for everyone from intermediates to champions. For beginners and adaptive rowers there are outriggers, too.

See the ROWING page for several indoor rowing workout videos .

Rowing the OPEN-WATER Adirondack guide boat

The 15 ft Adirondack Guide boat is based on the classic canoe style hull rowed by guides in the 1800’s. It’s terrific for open water sculling with its sliding seat, outriggers and carbon fiber oars. Very stable, it’s excellent for beginners, but rowing experts will love it too for its relaxed versatility, grace and sheer fun.

Vast schools of Menhaden (“Pogies”) form stunning patterns as seals cruise through while feeding.

Used for fertilizer, animal feed, and supplements for people and animals, menhaden form densely packed schools that cover many acres. (The commercial fishery for them exceeds all other seafood!). As seals feed in these vast schools, the menhaden form beautiful, swirling patterns in their efforts to avoid them, and the seals are often visible in the open areas that the fish form around them.

On the trail to camp nowhere

Traveling the trail to our timber-frame Camp Nowhere is a favorite activity as Oliver and “Winnie the Dog” show with the Abkenoc CampMobile.

Kayaking the Kennebec’s Tidal Marshes

Kayaking the marshes and open water of the tidal bays of the Kennebec estuary during a brilliant autumn day with a group of students.

Ice Kayaking on a Tidal Bay

Fresh snow, icicle sculptures and wide expanses of thin, skim ice make for memorable kayaking on a mild (high 20’s) January day. 

Ice Kayaking on the Kennebec

In the coldest months ice floes on the lower Kennebec create a maze of leads (channels) which open and close unpredictably. It’s a dramatic puzzle that offers surreal beauty and adventure for the advanced kayaker.

Seal release by Marine Mammals of Maine (MMoME) after rehabilitation

Watch a young seal rediscover its natural world when released to the ocean after 3 months of recovery from illness in the care of MMoME (Marine Mammals of Maine) headed by Lynda Doughty.

CNN Hero: LynAda Doughty & Marine Mammals of Maine (MMOME)

CNN produced this video about our friend Lynada Doughty and MMOME with on-the-water guiding and drone footage by Abkenoc Guiding. LyndaAda was one of the10 finalist CNN Heroes for 2021. The founder of MMOME, she is dedicated to response, rescue, and care of seals in distress as well as education about marine mammals. Two related videos are below.

Taking CNN HEROES crew & lynda doughty to film seals

CNN sent a film crew to interview MMOME’s LyndaAda Doughty for the CNN Heroes program. Abkenoc Guiding took them for a day on the water filming seals and listening to LyndaAda describe the lives of seals and the rehabilitation work at MMOME.

Two seal release and cnn Heroes film crew

CNN covered the release of two rehabilitated seals on Oct. 4, 2019 for their program CNN Heroes on LyndaAda Doughty. The drone photography and video production were by Abkenoc Guiding’s Oliver Dominick.

Destroyer heading out of the Kennebec estuary

An Arleigh Burke class destroyer built by Bath Iron works heads out to sea passing the islands of the Kennebec estuary, Fort Popham; by Abkenoc Guiding’s Oliver Dominick.