Welcome To Our New Site on the Water

We moved farther downeast to Eastport, ME to a campground we had never stayed at before, Seaview, and are now once again parked right on the water with awesome views and huge tides.  It is a fantastic spot!  Once parked we got settled in to enjoy the stellar views and, of course, solve some more of the world's problems.

We were treated to an incredible show as the sun went down.

Way out here on the eastern point of America the sun rises early, 4:45am, but it is light long before that, reminds of us being up in Alaska, and since we are early risers anyway, we have really enjoyed the early light.  This is the view that welcomed us at 5:15am.

We wanted to do some exploring, some walking, and what else?  Some eating, obviously.  The campground suggested a restaurant just up the road so we went there for lunch.  We had enormous bowls of seafood chowder and fish chowder, but Tom ordered an amazing lobster pizza, sounds weird, but we all got a taste and it was truly delicious!

Hard to tell from this picture how big this bowl really is,
none of the 3 of us could finish it all:-)

Now later this summer after our son Jason and Joanne's wedding we plan to return to Maine and were planning on staying at another campground near Lubec.  Lubec is about 3 miles away as the crow flies, but is 38 miles by road, but we wanted to go check it out, especially since we were so pleased with the campground here.  So we set off on a nice sightseeing road trip which had to include lunch, meanwhile Karen and Tom went to see the West Quoddy Lighthouse, the easternmost point in the US.  We had visited it previously on another trip.  We ended up making a circle around to Machias where we had an awesome lunch at Helen's, then over to check out the other campground and drive through Lubec.

A broiled haddock sandwich

Fantastic onion rings

Incredible haddock chowder with lobster!

It was a worthwhile trip, as we determined as nice as the other campground was, it really couldn't compare to where we are staying now.  So we were able to change our reservation and we plan to come back here instead on our travels through later in the summer.

Karen and Tom on the left, us on the right

Both Lubec and Eastport are tiny towns that look right over the water at Canada, only about 1000 people in each.

In fact this lighthouse is on Campobello Island in Canada across from Lubec.

Jan went out and took advantage of a wonderful sunrise to get these beautiful pictures.

So we are sitting here hunkered down in the rain today, which as it turns out is going to be our last day together, Karen and Tom will head south from here while Jan and I head farther north.  We said farewell over drinks and dinner at Karen and Tom's our last night. It has been a great time traveling along together for these 5 weeks.  

Adios guys

PS: We picked up a couple lobsters for our homemade lobster rolls for lunch tomorrow:-)

Going to be lunch!