# @kirstenalana on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B1wD8-9h9hK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/2429545-kirstenalana-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-08-29T14:18:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kirsten Alana (@KirstenAlana) — https://gondola.cc/KirstenAlana

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Like I said in my last post, the history of the Rangeley area is full of stories about extraordinary women who pioneered guiding people around @melakesmtns. From tying flies and fly fishing circles around their male peers to literally mapping the terrain and more, women were integral to making Rangeley what it is today. (Speaking from the time Maine became a state and on. I don’t yet know enough about the Indigenous people to speak to their history. But I think it would have been the Wabanaki.)
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Rheanna Sinnett carries on that tradition with @justaddwaterfloatingcamps. She’s blazing a trail in a sense by being the first to offer overnight stays aboard the cutest house boats I’ve ever seen. She can motor you out to a part of the lake you’ll have all to yourself (the houseboats are after all a boat) or you can sleep just off the family property which includes another beautiful wood boat her father Kevin takes people out on for tours of the lake and bird-watching to spot Rangeley’s resident loons. There’s also kayaking.
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I wanted to share a photo of Rheanna that showed her in her element, not just a stiff, formal portrait. So that’s why in the second photo she’s just sitting on the first of her two houseboats, Nomad, sipping coffee and enjoying the view. Roam, pictured in the first photo in this post, is slightly smaller and was completely custom built from the ground up to her specs after she restored and improved Nomad.
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She’s not likely to add a whole fleet of houseboats on Rangeley Lake because she’s wise enough to know that would neither help the lake’s community nor be good for the ecosystem. Which is why I predict when the word really gets out, she’s going to be booked up far in advance. You heard it here first. You should look at booking next summer pronto. You’ll have to compete with me of course because I’m going back to stay for as long as I can afford it or as long as Rheanna will let me 😝 And if she ever franchises this to other lakes in the USA, I’m sold.... #UnscriptedMaine #melakesmtns #mainething #shotonassignment

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