Unexpectedly Back To Hermon(Pumpkin Patch RV Resort)

After our fiasco and finding out we couldn't stay for 3 days unless we paid for a week, we needed a place to go.  We were able to add a few nights to our Narrows Too reservation in Trenton, but at almost $100/night, we didn't want to get carried away, so we looked at each other and wondered if Pumpkin Patch, a park we really liked had any vacancy.  It turned out they did, so we came back up here for a few nights, today we move down to Narrows Too in Trenton, and  near Acadia National Park.  So I'll start right off with food:-)  We had a cool wet day so we made homemade chicken pho, turned out wonderful.

While at the park that shall not be mentioned, we were able to stay the first 3 days that we had paid for in full so we tried to make the most of it.  Walked along the shore a bit.

We were close to a seafood shack we had wanted to try, but was closed earlier so we were able to go to Tracey's Seafood in Sullivan.  It is a tiny place run by very friendly people with excellent food.  We had awesome fried whole belly clams and haddock nuggets, lots of food and perfectly cooked!

As we were eating outside we noticed a small sign that said lobster---$5/pound, could that be right?  Sure enough, so we picked up 3 live ones for dinner that night, cooked up in our boiler:-)

We did sightsee around Schoodic Point and had a beautiful sunset.

Jan found a great hike nearby to Flanders Bay, we went early and had a great time and a very scenic hike, quiet and peaceful.

That's Cadillac Mountain on the left and Bar Harbor straight across

The "beach" was interesting 

The trail back was cool, reminded us of the Jordan Pond hike in ANP

We ran down to Corea, a tiny little seacoast town to have lunch, what a gorgeous spot with so much potential, and such a terrible lunch:-(

So after our disappointing lunch Jan made a delicious Spicy Thai Beef Salad for dinner, which was awesome, but we each learned something, homemade chili oil is HOT!!!  WOW.  But delicious...  And I'll enclose the recipe if any of you are feeling bold and like a little heat:-)

Delish!

So one more food post.  We knew if we got back to Hermon, we had to go back to Anglers for their awesome haddock chowder, and wonderful scallops.

Amazing chowder

Downeast Again For A Bit

We ended up extending in Hermon for a few more days and boy, were we glad we did.  When we saw Doug and Nancy they told us about a seafood company, Cantrell's that in addition to having a regular market sends out trucks periodically to different places around the state, even as far away as Presque Isle!  We called them and found out they were sending a truck to a town only about 35 miles away from us, and since D&N had always been pleased and buy a lot of their seafood from them we decided to give it a try.  First we found out the times aren't exact and since we were told around 10:30-11:00 we showed up at 10:30 and found a line of about 25 people already in line.  We waited for about 30 minutes, no truck, so we thought we'd go try out a place for lunch in the general area and come back, maybe the line would be gone.

We went to a place called Anglers that have 3 locations around the state and had an excellent lunch, haddock chowder, broiled haddock and scallops, and awesome onion rings, even the cole slaw was dynamite:-)

After our delicious lunch we went back over to where the truck was supposed to be and sure enough there was a pickup with a couple guys and a bunch of coolers in the back and a line of only 5 people.  Pay dirt!  We picked up a nice large piece of swordfish, a couple pounds of gorgeous scallops, and then best of all 8 lobster culls for..........wait for it........$4.99/lb!!  And those of you that don't know what a cull is, it is a lobster with only one claw, or a small or damaged claw, perfect, especially when you both love tail meat the most:-)  We took them back, got out our boiler, cooked them up and then picked 1.7 pounds of lobster meat from them!

That translated to 3 meals of lobster:-)

As I said, we found the Pumpkin Patch RV Resort a very nice place, big sites, wonderful folks, and a great location very close to Bangor, but situated in the country, and a bonus of being quiet and dark at night.  We ran a lot of errands while in the "big" city, and since I've already started with food, I'll continue, in fact this post is mostly about food:-)  We stopped back at Timber in town, earlier this year we went and were pleased and when we got back we planned to give it another shot.  A very nice place with great food.  Jan had a wonderful rigatoni bolognese, and I had a delicious ahi tuna salad.

After we got back we saw a 5th wheel come in with something we had never seen before, duallies on their two axles.  We talked to the couple and they told us it was only done for a little while and afforded them, just as you'd think, an additional 4500 pounds of carrying capacity, pretty neat and unique, especially for full-timers like they were.

On the subject of food, those of you not from or familiar with Maine probably aren't aware of their particular food product called Red Snapper Hot Dogs.  They are bright red colored hot dogs made with natural casings to give them that wonderful snap when you bite into them.  I thought I'd take a picture when we were in the grocery store as an example.  I'm sad to say that we haven't had one this season with our present eating program, but maybe later before we leave Maine, we'll make an exception:-)

Right now is wild blueberry picking season, Maine blueberries are small and very flavorful and make wonderful homemade muffins.

So after all our doings outside of Bangor we went back east to Seaview campground in Eastport where we had been earlier with Karen and Tom.  This time we were only there for a few days, and we parked up off the water in an enormous site in the grass.  The weather was wonderful.

We had planned to get some lobsters again while we there, but after our coup with the culls, we put that off a bit.  We just chilled while we were there, headed into Eastport, walked around a little park there with a gorgeous view and saw what we thought was an oyster farm, a big operation.

Jan had been doing a bit of research on sea glass and thought it'd be fun to go try to find some.  One of the places listed was Mowry Beach in Lubec, and since low tide was mid morning we gave it a go.  And because the tides are over 20', it opens up an enormous beach area filled with many clammers and beachcombers.  It was a perfect morning, temperature about 72.

A lot of the clammers had driven their vehicles way, way out on the beach, and even though it looks muddy, it was quite firm and easy to walk on, lots of fun for a few hours and Jan even got a few shards of sea glass.  And after a successful morning of exploring we came back via Machias and Helen's for a fantastic bowl of haddock chowder!

So now we have made our way west along the shore to a spot close to Schoodic Point.  I am not going to share where we are staying as we had quite an issue and even got yelled at for having the audacity to have to change a reservation, so ended up having to pay for several days we weren't allowed to stay for if we hadn't ponied up the rest of the fees for the 4 days we had to cancel and wouldn't be there.  A confusing, long story I won't bore you with.