Day 10 Part II of Maine Coast & starting home

This is part two of yesterday. The pictures all explain where we went. It was pretty cool to see the Bush Compound at Kennebunkport. It was rainy but by the afternoon when we stopped it had quit raining. I was so happy to be able to get a place to stay right on the beach. We sat out on the rocks and watched the tide go out and those crazy cold weather surfers. These small towns along the coast are all through Maine. No big restaurants, hotels or amusement parks that you see in Florida. I just can't wait until we come back again. Today was major driving, but it was worth it to have been able to stay where we did last night. We were in 8 different states today, if you can believe it. Maine, Mass., Conn., New York, Penn., Maryland, W. Virginia & Virginia. We will leave here in the morning and drive to Wytheville, VA and meet up with our friends, Debbie & Keith, Susie & Doug to eat lunch and then head home.
President Bush's weekend get-a-way at Kennebunkport, Maine.
Goat Island Lighthouse.
Buddy's lunch. Mr. Lobster you better watch out.
OUCH!!!!!!!!!
May he R.I.P.
My dessert.
Nubble Lighthouse.

This basket is how the keeper's of the light would get supplies from the mainland to the island. Also was used to send the kids over to go to school.
This is where we landed for the night.
Nubble Light from our room.
Surf on the rocks.
Boon Lighthouse.
Crazy surfers in 50 degree weather.
My dinner, clam strip roll with pasta salad.
Nubble Light at night.
Before leaving this morning I told Rosie (Our GPS) to "Go Home"
Long way to go in 2 days. 1,146 miles to home. Logged 2,108 so far.
This was taken from where we stopped to have lunch today on the Hudson River.
This is what Rosie told us when we stopped tonight. Still 593 miles to go and we have logged 2,695 miles.

Day 9 Still in Maine Part 1

Todays blog will be in two parts. We didn't travel many miles, but saw a lot. It was rainy again today and at first I was upset about taking the lighthouse pics in the rain and fog, but I have so many with blue sky I decided the fog today was pretty cool. This morning we went to a live web cam on Higgins Beach, Maine, that I have watched over the past couple of years. We called the grandkids and they all saw us on their computers. We went on and saw more lighthouses and I will report the rest of the day tomorrow night. Since we are still 1,200 miles from home and have to be back by Sun. I guess we better be moving on.
Cape Elizabeth.
Cape Elizabeth in the fog.

Portland Head Lighthouse.



Shores off of Portland Head Light.
Original Fresnel Lens before it was automated.
View from Light.
Spring Point Light.


Just love this pic of the boat in the fog. (This is for Craig & Nolen, big fans of "The Deadliest Catch"
Bug Light. It was raining as this was as far as we were going.

Day 8 Maine Coast

We left somewhere around 8:00 this morning. It was cold and drizzly all day. Never had any hard rain, and for a lot of the day we were rain free but very heavy clouds. We have been to so many lighthouses and for taking pics, it is very dissapointing to see them on a day like this. Nothing makes a lighthouse show up like having blue sky behind them. Makes a huge difference. We have been very lucky in the years that we have traveled to have had the good weather that we had. We should see a few more lighthouses tomorrow before heading back toward home. I can't believe it is almost over.
Rockland Breakwater Light. It was almost a mile walk out to it, and it was so cold and drizzly we decided this was as close as we would get.
Fresnel lens from lighthouses that are no longer in use. This was in a museum we toured.

Owls Head Light,
Keepers House.
Marshall Light.
Keepers House.
The next 5 pictures are of Pemaquid Point Light.
Rocky shoreline from top.

Day 7 Acadia National Park & Bar Harbor

We left this morning around 8:00 a.m. and drove 60 miles east to Acadia National Park. We took a 2 1/2 hr. tour on a trolley, which enabled Buddy to be able to see also. He is usually driving and don't get to see as much as I do as we are traveling. Our guide was very good. When we got back it was just starting to drizzle. We ate lunch at a restaurant in Bay Harbor down by the bay but had to take a window seat instead of outside. Our waiter told us this was a very good time of year to come. He said summer and into fall is very busy. There were very few people in the town. After lunch we went and found another lighthouse. By then it was raining pretty good so we came back, drove around Belfast, which is where we are staying. We weren't very hungry so we just ordered a meal from the restaurant here at the hotel and split it. Still not sure which direction we are going tomorrow. Depends on the weather. I know one thing the grey skies today sure didn't make for very good pics.
View from Cadillac Mountain in Acadia Park.

The mountain is all granite.
Flowers are just starting to bloom.


This is the only house on this side of the island that survived a fire in 1947. They actually call them cottages, I call them mansions, they are huge. The man told his girlfriend he was building the house for her. She wouldn't commit to the marriage and went back to Germany. She was coming back to see it and was on the Titanic and went down. So what a mystery, was she coming back to marry him or not? May have to double click to see it.
Sandy beach if you can brave it. Highest the water temp. gets in the summer is 57 degrees.
Rocky shores around Acadia.



This is where we ate lunch. It was right on the water but was raining so had to sit inside. It was very good.
Some extremely good clam chowder or as they say around here (chowdah)
Once again Lobster Rolls, and red potatos, (not as good as we had yesterday, but still tasty)
This is Geddy's, it has a live web cam on the side of the building. I look at it in the winter when they have snow, so it was neat to actually see where it was.
This is a private residence so didn't get a very good pic, plus it was starting to rain.