Maine Day Seven and Eight - LL Bean

 

Wednesday night when we got back back to the townhouse and saw the forecast for Thursday was rain we decided to sleep in and just hang out at the townhouse. It rained all day. That night Fred and I went to the Lobster Shack above. They advertised grilled lobster tail. Fred had that and I had ribs. The ribs were awesome! The lobster above was the one and only I had. That was near Bar Harbor the first day in Maine. You break off the tail and eat that meat. You can eat meat from the claws also. I was kind of turned off by the green slime when you snap off the tail. The waitress said lots of people eat that green slime on crackers. I was in Maine so I tried Lobster, so did Jean, but once was enough. Fred had it a couple times and a couple Lobster Rolls.

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Friday it rained all day also. We decided to drive the 2 1/2 hours to Freeport Maine and went to LL Bean's flagship store. It was pretty fun.

Maine Day Six - South From Ellsworth to Fort Clyde

Saw lots of artists capturing the scenes, especially around lighthouses.

We mostly saw the low tide. The docks look kind of funny like they were on stilts.

 Lobster boats were everywhere and you could see the trap markers everywhere also.

Lots of lighthouses! Not as many in use as years ago but still quite a few active ones. This one above had a lightkeeper and his family living in it. There were signs not to go up to the house so the family could have their privacy. We didn't see anyone there.

Maine Day Five - Campobello Island

We went to Campobello Island in New Brunswick. The island is only about 10 miles across. The tide difference from high to low was higher here than along the coast of Maine. We had a really fun day here and even saw some seals and a whale.

 President Roosevelt had a summer cottage on Campobello Island. We stopped and toured it. It was preserved in the period that he spent here. It was really interesting. It had 18 bedrooms, several of which were maids rooms. Three floors. This last picture is the view from the back of the house. That is Bay of Fundy.

 That is a seal peeking out of the water. We saw a few by the lighthouse right after we got on the island.

This lighthouse is on the north end of the island. There are only three hours a day that you can walk to it. This was low tide and at high tide, where we were walking, would be covered over with 24+ feet of water. We didn't actually walk over to the lighthouse. You can see those stairs Danny is climbing in the picture above this one. There is an even steeper set going down below the pine tree in the bottom picture and then it's a little hike across rocks to get over to the lighthouse. The picture doesn't show the depth or distance very well. While we were standing here we did see a whale out in the water. It would just pop out for a second or so at a time and we weren't able to catch it on camera.
On the way home we saw lots of trucks out clamming. We talked to a local and he said the clam price was high right now so lots of people were taking advantage of it.

Maine Day Three and Four - Ellsworth and Acadia National Park

I spent hours and hours online looking for a rental. Trying to figure out the best place to have as our base as I knew we would be be going up and down the coast. I finally settled on a townhouse at Acadia Village Resort in Ellsworth. It worked out great. It wasn't the fanciest place but it was spotless! I'll take clean over fancy any day! There were two bedrooms and three baths. Danny slept on that couch which opened up as a hide-a-bed. We ate breakfast most mornings here and a few times packed a lunch. We would leave in the morning and usually get back after dark.

All the pictures above were taken in Acadia National Park. It is one of the prettiest places in Maine and believe me, there are a LOT of pretty places. We went up Mt. Desert, which is in the park, pictured in the two top pictures.

Maine Day Two- Up State New York and Vermont

 We spent our first night in Rochester, New York. Then we traveled through up state New York and went to Lake Placid. A beautiful area. Lake Placid was wall to wall people so we didn't stop.

We saw a few covered bridges in Vermont. There aren't many left.

Pizza supper in Vergennes, Vermont

We stopped for hot fudge sundaes at a McDonald's in Vermont. Maybe Lincoln? Danny wanted us to sit in this "booth" but it was so sticky we let him sit there himself.