fish point by E. Jason Gibbs

Fish Point is part of a 68 acre city park called the Eastern Promenade, located in my neighbourhood in Portland, Maine. Fish Point has sweeping views of Casco Bay and is busy with shipping traffic, barges, commercial fishing, tugboats, ferries coming and going from the islands, sailboats and increasingly yachts, tourists paddling, and cruise ships. Fish Point is off a multi-use trail that runs along the Portland waterfront.
The area near Fish Point used to be semi-abandoned industrial buildings. In recent years, a historic block of buildings was torn down and rebuilt as a luxury marina, hotels, office buildings that sit empty, restaurants, and eventually condominiums. This development has limited public access to the waterfront due to fencing and private property signs around the marina. The character of the area has fundamentally changed.
Along the same stretch of waterfront there are many unhoused people, sleeping in sparsely wooded areas or out in the open. There is also abundant bird activity, foxes, rabbits, woodchucks, weasels, fishers, and an abundance of rats.
Nearby are public beaches, municipal boat ramps and moorings, the water treatment facility, and a historic narrow gauge railroad. Most of the recordings for this composition are collected at Fish Point and surrounds in drainages, vent pipes, docks, electrical boxes and the surfaces
of steel and concrete structures.

(E. Jason Gibbs, December 2024)

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