 My name is Roger Burley and I'm President of the Oceanside Conservation Trust and I'm here with another board member, Erno Bonobacker. And we are two of 13 board members of this land trust, which has interests in almost all the islands in western Casco Bay. And today we're on Cliff Island and this is our third day of our annual monitoring work. What monitoring means is that we check out the properties in which we hold interest, either in fee or in conservation easement, to see if the terms and conditions of the property ownership and conservation easements are being met. And we're standing on a piece of property called Brackett-Griffin's Cove. And this is a three-quarter acre piece of property which we, Oceanside, have had an interest in since the year 2000, I think. And this is a unique piece of property because it has a tidal chunk of water that abuts it on one side. And that is very, very handy for the socializing and swimming and sunning that happens here for two or three months of the summer season. And then for six months of the year, fishermen are allowed to haul up and store their boats and other gear on this particular property. And that is written into the conservation easement and I believe it is unique in the state of Maine that this is allowed and encouraged. And, Erno, how about you? You're a little more objective because you don't live on Cliff Island. Well, this is a, it's always an opportunity to reacquaint myself with these properties. It certainly looks good to me. Spring is just coming and so the growth hasn't come back too much and I don't see anything from here. I'd like to walk around a little bit and see if there are any new evidence of invasive plants that we might be concerned with. Do you see some honeysuckle right over there? And is this multi-flora rose? No, this is Rosa Ragosa, which is technically an invasive, but we're considering it not so. And clearly you're keeping it in check, which is a good thing. So I think a quick walk around and we'll be finished. So now we're on a different portion of Cliff Island and we're standing on a 13-acre piece of property, which has just within the last year been bought for conservation purposes by what they call an angel buyer. An angel buyer is someone who will step in between a private owner and a future nonprofit conservation destination and to make it a simpler process to deal with whoever the seller was and whatever complications the seller brought to the process. This is a spot, 13 acres, a good deal of it is wetland, which can never be developed, it will never be developed. But where we're standing now could have had two homes on it and now it will never have two homes built on it. And there's really nothing wrong with having a couple of houses built here, except that this has been a long treasured piece of property for community use. Many, many gatherings have been held here over time and the effort now has culminated in keeping it available to the community forever. Not just the Cliff Island community, but the greater public. But of course 99% of the use will be by Cliff Islanders. And so there's 1,100 feet of beach frontage here, of beach, which is rare in Maine. It is certainly a very usable sandy beach and there's very little of that in Maine. It will be available forever, there will be no concern about it being shut up. No trespassing signs will happen here. So when we came out here to Cliff Island today, we started by circumnavigating the island. Almost all of the properties that we, in fact all the properties that we have conservation interest in are on the water or very close to the water's edge. And so it really makes sense to check out the water side of those properties, as well as check them out from the land side. And so when we circumnavigated at the beginning, we went around the north point and then across the beach and around what we call the Belknap Bluffs and then down along the southeasterly shore and so we call the Gardner parcel. So we took in from the water four properties, observing them to see if there's anything that we could notice from the water. And then we landed here and looked at the number of the properties, other properties that we couldn't so closely see from the water from the land side. So it's the same thing. Most, every property on Cliff Island either has waterfront or has a water view and it's one of the unique properties that we all enjoy here, properties that's facets of them. And so it's all part of our monitoring experiences to observe and appreciate how they serve the community, how they look to see if there's anything amiss that we should be concerned about. So that's what we've been up to today on our Oceanside Conservation Trust monitoring on Cliff Island.