Westward Bound

We were blessed with a few good weather days, warm enough even for shorts, still interspersed with fog and drizzle.  We really enjoyed our last days in Eastport, even saw a good sized ship come down the inlet in front of us.

Went into Eastport and ate lunch outside at a decent little place, Waco Diner, the oldest diner in Maine, 1924.

The ferry going by

Seafood chowder

Fried platter, haddock and scallops

The fog wafting in and out made for some nice views.

And a cool, foggy evening called for a great shrimp and noodle stir fry:-)

Our last day was still cloudy, but the tide charts looked good for Lubec, it wasn't raining, so we thought we'd make one more attempt to walk the beach in Lubec and have lunch.  So lunch first, basically Lubec has one restaurant, which I won't name, we walked in and were greeted with, we don't have a lot of things, no lobster meat, no french fries, no clams.......  It so happened we weren't looking for any of those things, so, and since it's the only show in town, we sat down.  They were friendly, but, it was okay, say pretty good, acceptable.

Fish tacos, with fish chowder on the top, and seafood chowder below

After lunch we headed for the beach, and found a strong biting wind from the east, low clouds, and a bit of drizzle, but much better than earlier when we couldn't see anything, so we gave it a short go.

Previously

This time, about the same spot

We walked into the breeze as far as we could, then turned and hightailed it back to the truck:-)

As far as we got, that's the bridge to Campobello Island

And what did we have on our last evening in Eastport?

FOG!

And of course the next morning, the day of our departure was.........gorgeous:-)  Oh well, so off we went for Ellsworth, near Acadia NP.  We went from cool to hot in one day, 86+ when we arrived at our site, shorts!  We did detour on our way since we knew we were going right by Tracey's, a little seafood shack on Rte 1, that sold lobsters for a good price, we pulled over, ran back, and picked up dinner and enough for our travel day lunch in 3 days.

Since we only have a little over a week left in Maine we have it pretty well planned out.  One of the things we absolutely wanted to do was the 3.2 mile hike around Jordan Pond in Acadia, one of our absolute favorites, we left the coach before 0530am and began our hike at 0615am.  Perfect!  And what a day.

Does it get better than this?

We went clockwise, our preference and almost immediately you end up on a 3/4 mile long boardwalk through the woods along the pond.

We interrupted his breakfast

The half way point and we have seen, one person!  Just like we have the place to ourselves, very worth going early because this is a very popular trail.

3/4's around where we know of a beaver hut, sure enough we even catch sight of one of the beavers, and only one more person!!

Their hut up against the shore

Then finished up back at the Jordan Pond House, home of the famous popover's, but we were way too early to have any.

Then back to the motorhome with time to clean up before we did another thing on our list and that was lunch at Bagaduce Lunch, another favorite.

Clams, scallops, and onion rings!

And a view to boot!

So tomorrow, we head back down to Scarborough and Bayley's where we started this spring, one completely filled week there, and off we go west, my friends.