Once more getting ready to move down the coast.

We've been having a good time the last several days.  We had a nice visit from Tom, Karen's husband, who joined the festivities.  The weather has been changing, we've had some rain and fog and beautiful days, not to say the rain and fog can't be beautiful as well.  Something about the rocky Maine coast in the fog is very alluring.  And sometimes it's nice to hunker down with a hot cup of coffee and just watch the rain pour down.  We are moving all of 60 miles down to Scarborough today, just south of Portland.  We expect to get real cell phone coverage again, amazing how dependent you become especially when you don't have it.  It frustrates all of us that right here in the eastern US the coverage is so spotty!

We have been enjoying the food, especially lobster rolls.  Lobster prices are at their lowest level since 1994, so we are doing all we can to keep the economy moving.  We found an unusual blog about, can you believe it, lobster rolls?  It is called Lobster Gal, and it's been an interesting find.  To think that some one has personally tested, tasted, over 140 rolls, and can differentiate between them is hard to comprehend.  But, she believes the number 2 spot is a tie between Five Islands Lobster Company and Boothbay Lobster Wharf located right here, so how could we pass that up??  We found out that after Labor Day Five Islands is only open on the weekend, so that wouldn't work.  We preferred to go there since we knew it was an absolutely gorgeous place that we had visited in our sailboat a million years ago.  We had eaten and raved about Red's Eats and couldn't imagine a roll that could be any better.  Off we went.

Boothbay Lobster Wharf waiting for everyone

Not a bad view while you eat, huh?

What did we think, well it was very, very good, but none of us could say that it was better or worse than Red's, so I guess it means that writing a lobster roll blog should be left to the experts?

The rainy days made for some awesome views as we rode around the coastline.

Calm and serene

Beautiful

We took a ride to Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, this was a special place for Jan, Karen, and Nancy.  They have a lot of nice memories being there with their parents, Vern and Viv, when they were kids.  Pleasant memories came flooding back as we walked around and up the lighthouse.

Pemaquid Point Lighthouse

Rocky point

Looking up

The headland from above

Coming back down

Conferring whether the tide is coming in or out
it was going out

The lighthouse was commissioned by John Quincy Adams in 1827 and first built that year.  Unfortunately they used salt water and it crumbled and was rebuilt in 1835.

I have included a few photos Jan took as we traveled about.  It surely is a gorgeous coast!

Low tide

What a spot for a home!

Picture perfect

A disgruntled wet seagull on our sunroof.

Let me in!

Jan and I decided to go for a hike rather than walk anymore in the campground.  It is pretty and there is plenty of room for a walk here, but it is straight up and down hill, a little of that is good, but after 3 days of it, we, or maybe I should say I, had had it.  So I found a pretty little 2 mile hike through the woods to do instead.

Jan is leading the way

Wildcat Creek

So that's what we've been up to, and off we go in the pouring rain.

Red's Eats

Just wanted to make a short post about Red's Eats.  It is a little tiny restaurant in Wiscasset, ME.  It has been operated since 1938 and in its present location and building since 1954.  It is known for their lobster rolls and fried clams, but they actually serve a lot of other things including all kinds of seafood, hamburgers, onion rings, etc.  It is open from mid-April until mid October, there is no inside seating and the line is often VERY long.  We had never heard of it until one trip in 2007 while we were in Wells, ME and saw it featured on Food Network.  We made the drive and were very impressed.  The lobster rolls are amazing and somewhat unique.  They are on the typical and only to be found in New England hot dog bun with the flat toasted sides filled with, as they say, the meat of more than one lobster each, and have no dressing.  You have a choice of either mayonnaise or melted butter on the side.  So since our campground in Boothbay is only 8 miles away we felt we were duty bound to take Karen over to Reds.  We were not disappointed!  We arrived at 1100am when they were to open and waited in line until we put in our order at noon.  We had a feast of lobster rolls, fried clams and onion rings!  Here are a few pictures.

In line

A list of the accolades 

Lunch time

Our feast!

The real deal