May 15 - 30, 2025
On Friday, May 16 we drove to Wakeda Campground in Hampton Falls, NH for 6 nights.
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| We had a full hookup, back in site that was very nice with a wooded area out our back window. It was $64 per night. It rained quite a bit and there wasn't much to do in the area. We forgot to take a picture. |
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| We did take a drive along the shore. |
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| We also went to Fort McClary. |
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| There was a pretty lighthouse and keeper's house on an island. |
On Thursday, May 22, we drove to Augusta/Gardiner KOA Journey in Richmond, ME for 5 nights.
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It was a pull through with full hookups for $75.01 per night. Again, it rained a lot and there wasn't a whole lot to do around there.
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| We did go to Freeport and took a tour of Wilbur Candies. It was an interesting tour ($6 each) and we got some samples of the candy as well as bought some. It was good but not the best chocolate I've ever had. |
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Then we went to L. L. Bean and went through most of the stores. They have so much merchandise there that they have four different buildings, plus the outlet store. John bought a pair of much needed slippers at the outlet but I didn't buy anything. It was fun just to see everything.
On Tuesday, May 27 we went to Trenton, ME, just north of Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. We're at the Timberland Acres RV Park for 10 nights. |
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| It's a pull through with full hookups for $65.40 per night. We were going to leave earlier, but Michael, JoAnn and Jack are coming up next week so we extended our stay. |
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| On Wednesday we took the Lulu Lobster Boat Tour. It was outstanding! Our captain was a licensed lobster fisherman, and our guide, Galen, was very knowledgeable. They were able to show us how they bring up the traps and how they decided if the lobsters are keepers or not. They have to be between a certain length - too small or too big and they go back into the ocean. If they have eggs or a notch on their tails they are females and they go back in. The notches are put on when a lobsterman catches a lobster with eggs. Then anyone else that catches that lobster knows it's a female and can't be kept. FYI - we took the 9:00 tour on a weekday and there were only a dozen other people on the boat so we could move around and get up close to and touch the lobsters. The 11:30 boat after ours looked much more crowded. |
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| Each trap has a 'kitchen', where a bait bag (usually rotten herring) is, and a 'parlor', which is another opening in the trap where the lobsters can go. You can see the little rectangle on the front of the trap that will allow smaller lobsters to get out. |
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| Fortunately for this guy he was too small and went back overboard. |
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| This lobster was doing some fishing of his own. |
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| This is the gauge they use to measure the lobsters. I was reading the book "The Secret Life of Lobsters" since I knew we were coming here and that made it so much more interesting. |
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| We also went out and around Egg Rock. All the lighthouses these days are automated so no lightkeepers are needed. They still blow the foghorns though. |
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| The coast and islands around here are very rugged. There were seals and their pups but they were too far away and I didn't get a good picture. |
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| After our tour we went to Bar Harbor Inn and had a lobster roll for lunch. I can't remember having lobster before, and John only had it in Hawaii decades ago. The texture was different than I thought it would be, even though I should have known it would be similar to shrimp. We've had our Maine lobster and we're good. |
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| The view from our table. |
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| After lunch we went into Acadia National Park and did the loop road. Even though it was a Wednesday it was still busy at the trailheads and sights. |
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| Along the loop road. |
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| One of the Rockefeller bridges. They're all different along the carriage road, and all the ones we saw are very pretty. |
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| A panorama at one of the overlooks. |
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| This bridge was curved. |
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| Yes, we're still in Dunkin Donuts country. It seems like there's one everywhere! |
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| On Friday we went around the "quiet side" of the island, west of Somes Sound. We have the GuideAlong guides that directed us along the route as to things to see and do. We get a lot more out of the drive than if we just drove. This was a natural seawall that developed in the storms. The smaller rocks are called cobble, and that's where the baby lobsters hide offshore until they get bigger. |
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| We stopped at the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse. |
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| The fog was just burning off and we could hear a foghorn buoy but couldn't see it. |
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View from the path to the lighthouse.
We then went back to Bar Harbor and took the guide tour on the area west of the loop road and east of Somes Sound. There are some very pretty lobster fishing villages, but I didn't get a pictures because the truck is big and there aren't many places to pull over.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow so we'll stay in.
In a few days we'll be...
Roving on...
For this is what the LORD says, He who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and not create if as a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited): "I am the LORD, and there is no one else." Isaiah 45:1 |
