Maine Guide Supply, LLC

03/11/2026

Red Sun in morning, sailors take warning. Rain, high winds, and more predicted. Stay safe.

12/23/2025

Sea Kayaking Outfitters NEED summer Registered Maine Guides! Maine Tourism is offering to reimburse fees to test and become licensed if the candidate then works ten days with an outfitter.

Alice's Awesome Adventures, LLC is offering a ZOOM Registered Maine Guide Training Program, 1/20/26 - 3/31/26 from 5:30 - 8:30pm. $500. Training focuses on these specialties: Sea Kayaking, Tidewater Fishing, Recreation, Fishing, Hunting. Train during the winter without commuting to class! Register at www.amaineguide.com

Alice's Awesome Adventures, LLC is also offering two internships for the summer season for sea kayak guides to be. Contact Alice's Awesome Adventures, LLC.

12/15/2025

Here is a Free Zoom link for How to Train to Become A Registered Maine Guide. Please be in a place that is quiet. You'll want to have some notepaper and a pen to take notes.
If you are interested in training and being ready for summer guiding in Maine, the next Registered Maine Guide Training class starts 1/20/2026 at 5:30pm. $500.
Alice Bean Andrenyak is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: How To Train To Become A Registered Maine Guide
Time: Monday, December 15th 7 - 8:15pm.
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07/30/2025

Some items available to Registered and Master Maine Guides at www.maineguidesupply.com

Order online only as I don't have a physical store.

01/31/2025

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Want to apply for a Maine Concealed Carry Permit? Take this class!

Concealed Carry and Home Defense class in Lisbon Falls at Buck's Guns. If you complete the class requirements, you will receive a certificate that may be used to apply for a Concealed Carry Permit. Coed class is limited to 8 students. Live shooting portion of class is during the day at an indoor range. Register online: https://bit.ly/ConcealedCarryCourse

01/02/2025

Have white t-shirts with silk screened Master Maine Guide on front. Some have little brown spots others are perfect. $10. Must contact me directly to purchase and you must be a Master Maine Guide. 5 XXL, 1 XL, 2 L (these have spots). Also, one embroidered Kelly Green t-shirt in XL, $12. [email protected]

12/30/2024

Want to wear this patch? Become a Registered Maine Guide.

Take a hybrid- Zoom evening class starting January 21st! Ten classes by Zoom from 5:30 - 8:30pm on Tuesday evenings plus three all day outside workshops. Course includes online textbook, homework, and has you ready to take exams in early spring. $500 for the Zoom portion of the training and you can be anywhere in the United States! No commuting to class. No worries about weather conditions. Register through adult education programs - Merrymeeting Adult Education, Boothbay Adult Education, Midcoast Adult Education, Central Lincoln County Adult Education, Five Town CSD Adult Education, and Maranacook Adult Education.

12/30/2024

Report your rabbit sightings to help protect the state Endangered New England cottontail
A New England cottontail in the snow
New England cottontail photo by Logan Parker

The New England cottontail (NEC) is Maine’s only native true rabbit, and was once common in southern Maine. However, NEC populations have declined dramatically in Maine and across their entire range due to habitat loss. Today, NEC are known to occur in just 7 towns: Cape Elizabeth, Scarborough, Wells, York, Kittery, Eliot, and Kennebunk; with a statewide population of less than 400 individuals. MDIFW is working with partners to restore Maine’s NEC, but we need more eyes in southern and coastal Maine!

Share Your Sightings!
If you see a rabbit that might be a New England cottontail or an Eastern cottontail (a non-native species that resembles NEC), we want to hear about it! Please take a photo to submit when possible, take note of the following, and report your sighting online:

A New England cottontail blending into fallen leaves
Date
Time
Location/Town
Habitat Description
Identifying Characteristics- Please do not report known snowshoe hares. Did you observe any features that support identification as an NEC? Find identification tips below.
Report a Rabbit Sighting
MDIFW will conduct surveys in the vicinity of credible NEC sightings to search for currently unknown populations. Any new confirmations of the species will greatly enhance our restoration effort by allowing us to protect the population and provide additional opportunities for us to conduct habitat management that will ultimately increase Maine’s NEC population.

Identifying New England Cottontails
New England cottontails
New England cottontails at a glance
New England cottontails are medium-sized rabbits (14-17 inches long) and weigh in at just 1-2.5 pounds. They have dark brown fur with a wash of black-tipped fur, a black edge to their ears. They also have a black spot between their ears though this characteristic is typically not visible from a distance.

Photo by Wells Reserve at Laudholm



A rabbit with a brown coat compared with a hare with a white coat in winter

Hares are white in winter, but rabbits are brown year-round!
It can be surprisingly tricky to distinguish NEC and snowshoe hares during most of the year but identification becomes much simpler in winter! The snowshoe hare goes through a costume change for the snowy months, turning white while NEC retain a brown coat all year. We only need reports of potential NEC so this winter remember to write it down if it's brown and just enjoy the sight if its white!





Eastern cottontail
Non-native look-alikes
Until recently, Maine was the only state in the northeast that did not have eastern cottontails, a non-native rabbit which is nearly indistinguishable from the NEC. Reporting all brown rabbits in winter not only helps locate new undocumented populations of NEC, it also may help identify areas of eastern cottontail expansion which pose a threat to the recovery of Maine's only native rabbit.

12/18/2024

The Sagadahoc County Sheriff Department is sponsoring some beginner handgun training classes.

January classes held at the Topsham Police Department- January 11 & 18th - 8:30 - Noon Coed Basics of Pistol Shooting, and 1:00 - 4:45pm Women's Only Defensive Pistol Shooting Fundamentals. $125/class. Maximum of 12 students per class.

March classes held at the Topsham Police Department - March 23 & 30tth - 8:30 - Noon Women's Only Defensive Pistol Shooting Fundamentals, and 1:00 - 4:45pm Coed Basics of Pistol Shooting. $125/class. Maximum of 12 students per class

July class held at the Topsham Police Department - July 8 & 15th, 5:30 - 8:45pm. Coed Basics of Pistol Shooting. $125. Maximum of 12 students.

Use this link to register:

Alice's Handgun Training is a specialty focus of Alice's Awesome Adventures. Master Maine Guide Alice as an USCCA Instructor and a NRA Instructor trains future handgun owners, new handgun owners or those that have never fired a handgun before the basics of pistol shooting.

10/29/2024

You are asking to die if you don't wear a life jacket! I don't care about water temperature or sea state. What if you hit your head and are unconscious or physically disabled? This was preventable.