Good bye and even more food!

Just before we left Boothbay for our long, long, 45 miles to Camden Hills State Park, we went on line to search for restaurants in the Camden area.  We had to leave Boothbay by 11am and we couldn't check into Camden Hills until after 1pm, so you know, we had to eat:-)  Turns out the highest rated restaurant was a little hole in the wall take out joint called Mount Battie Take Out which, conveniently enough, was right near the State Park.  Looked a little questionable, but we gave it a go.  It was delicious and reasonable!  Shrimp and scallops for Jason, scallops for me, and an incredible haddock sandwich for Jan.

So we checked in to a very nice state park, and popped up to the top of Mount Battie to see what we could see.  Fantastic!  Weather was awesome and the views spectacular.

Jason and Jan

Jason and yours truly

Camden Harbor

So we only had one more day and we had to get Jason back down the 95 miles to the Portland airport for his flight.  He was studying the computer for awhile and announced he'd like his last meal to be at a little place he found on line, McLoon's Lobster Shack in South Thomaston, ME.  Okay we can work that out.  We'll head down there for lunch then go up and around to get to Portland so as to avoid Rte 1 in the summertime.  Yeah, the traffic is nuts!  So we drive way, way down south to a little spot right on the water, very picturesque, and as it turned out excellent.

Trying to decide

Pretty busy

Well, Jason must have decided since it was his last meal in Maine, he'd do it up right:-)  He ordered lobster stew, grilled clams, corn chowder, and strawberry shortcake!  I had, yes, another lobster roll, and Jan had a crab cake sandwich.  It was excellent.  In fact Jan and I went back the next day for another lunch before we left for Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor.

The grilled clams.  We had never heard of this before.
They put these little necks or cherrystones right on the grill.
Then when they opened they served them with melted garlic butter!
Yeah, they were oh so good.

Lobster stew full of lobster!

Another lobster roll:-)

Delicious crab cake

Savoring the strawberry short cake

After our great lunch we had a long drive down to Portland, stopped at a huge farm stand for some fresh veggies, dropped Jason off in the rain, what timing, huh?  Then we headed back north to the motorhome.  We had a great time with Jason and it gave him some much needed time off from the heat in Atlanta.  Jan and I are now in Trenton, ME, just up from Acadia National Park and are planning to go do a 3 mile hike around Jordan Pond, and cap it off with some famous hot popovers with home made jam at the Jordan Pond House afterwards!  Hey somebody's gotta do it!