August 29: Riptides August 29, 2014 Kristen Lindquist The tides of Cobscook Bay in Down East Maine are big and ferocious, punctuated by a boiling mass of whirlpools called the Old Sow. Gulls feed in a frenzy here as the churning waters swirl fresh food through the bay. Old Sow boils over Appetites of tides, gulls We want to see it all