The Mysteries of Merrymeeting Bay Swirls & Curls Pink & Green Maine Tourmaline Bracelet

The Mysteries of Merrymeeting Bay
Swirls & Curls

Pink & Green Maine Tourmaline Bracelet

One fine spring day after hiking woods and fields I stood on the banks of the mighty Kennebec River. Where the Kennebec narrows at returning tide, it spills a mixture of fresh and saltwater into Merrymeeting Bay. I had come to see the power of the sea and tides swirl through this confined space of the river. I was not disappointed. I watched as water flowed back up river as whirlpools formed, swept up and combined with one another. I watched one whirlpool take a stick, swirl it around, stand the stick on end, and spin it around like a mixing spoon.

Merrymeeting Bay is where fresh and saltwater meet twice a day on returning tides, a place that curiously few Mainers have ever seen. Roads skirt out around the bay and only a few hundred homes border it’s shores. The Kennebec River and Merrymeeting Bay were a well-travelled highway in the 1800s with great sailing ships of the world travelling up and down to Hallowell and Augusta. This bracelet has the swirls of the Kennebec as it flows through the narrows and into Merrymeeting Bay. We alternate pink and green Maine tourmaline within the swirls.