The Quoddy Tides Staff

OLD THOM, a lone orca that comes regularly to the Gulf of Maine, was seen during a whale-watch with Eastport Charter on Friday, August 21, off North Head, Grand Manan. The orca also has been spotted in the waters of the Quoddy area, and the large bull is sometimes seen ... (Chris Bartlett photo)

COMPETITION was especially fierce, and messy, within the adult division at the 2026 Machias Wild Blueberry Festival’s blueberry pie-eating contest. (Nathan Brimmer photo)

LOOK WHAT I CAUGHT! Children off the cruise ship Zuiderdam enjoy lobsters and other sea creatures in the touch tank at the Eastport breakwater on July 12. (Don Dunbar photo)

RHUBARB GARB FASHIONISTAS. Throughout the afternoon of the Rhubarb Festival, held June 6 at Kendall Farm in Perry, participants stopped by Amy Ray’s creation station to embellish dresses, shirts and accessories... (Wendy Candelmo photo)

A HUMMINGBIRD feeds on quince bush blossoms in Pembroke on May 22. (Don Dunbar photo)

IZZY CLARK of the Shead Tigerettes delivers a pitch as rain clouds move by during a game against Machias on May 8. (Don Dunbar photo)