Tour Guide Bios

Our volunteer local tour guides are not only knowledgeable, but enthusiastic about what they do. This genuine enthusiasm carries forth in their ability to educate and inform people of all ages who attend our tours.

Shelly Tinker

Shelly is a certified diver and photographer who was born and raised in Lubec Combining her interests, she photographed undersea creatures for the Nature Conservancy's beautiful poster on Cobscook Bay (under the name Shelly Corey). She has also participated in the successful rescue of two whales entangled in fishing gear. Shelly is a fourth generation Lubecker (her grandfather was a lobster fisherman), and her husband is a fifth generation fisherman from Campobello. Together they run a commercial fishing boat. Shelly approaches tour guiding with knowledge, enthusiasm and a love of the Downeast nature and way of life. Whether "squishing" through low tide mud or pointing out the differences in fishing vessels, she makes every tour a pleasure.

Ruta Jordans

Back when the Boston Museum of Science had an extensive exhibit on bogs, Ruta spent her whole visit there while her family traipsed through the rest of the museum. Recognizing that bogs are seen as eerie and forbidding in Europe, she was surprised to find that Native Americans harvested the bogs for food and medicines, even using sphagnum moss for diapers. On moving to Lubec she was delighted to find two rare arctic bogs with placarded boardwalks here along with Carrying Place Cove Bog, which has been designated a National Natural Landmark. Ruta enjoys sharing her fascination with bogs and other effects of the Ice Age in Lubec and Campobello.