The final Chapter of the Maine Event.

Filling in the rest of our big adventure.

Well it has been a while. It has taken time to settle back in. My coworker has a picture of a gull wearing yellow boots as a desk top picture on our computer. She says she put it up on the day I left for the big adventure and that he was watching over me while we travelled & while we were at sea. When I looked at him today at work he appeared to be calling me back to Maine but alas I must stay here.
It is a cold, windy, rainy day here today. We are under a rainfall warning. The puddle at the end of our driveway we lovingly call Atkinson Lake is the biggest I have ever seen it. It is one of those night when I wish we had a wood burning fireplace to sit in front of.

Thought I would fill in the missing peaces of out grand adventure in this instalment of the blog so here goes;

Day 9 has no pictures. We had a quick trip over from the cove we stayed in & everyone said goodbye. We had an appointment at the spa for a much needed shower & a hot shell massage. The shower was wonderful but the massage was awesome. They used large heated shells to do the actual massage. It was MUCH better then any hot stone massage I had ever had. We floated out of there & stopped at Walmart quickly to pick up a few things then headed to the Berry Manor Inn to check in. There will be pictures & info about this piece of heaven later in this blog. We did laundry & had supper at a small restaurant.

Day 10 - After a wonderful breakfast at the inn we headed out to explore the countryside north of Rockland.

This was at the Maine Cheese Company. Thought the Lobster Sculpture was cute. We bought some cheese & crackers and two chocolates that looked like olives & tasted like Peanut Butter cups on steroids.

Stopped at a beach & did some beach combing for sea glass. Found mostly small pieces. The toys happened to be there from a family who had wondered down the beach exploring so we took advantage of them for props

Hey Steven, it is a cannon from the war of 1812.

This is the waterfalls in Camden Maine. It flows under the road & the businesses  on the main street & empties in to the harbour.

This pup was waiting patiently on the dock for a schooner to return from its 2 hour scenic trip. Peter  called him a Lobsterdor Retriever. When the boat returned & all it guests departed it boarded.

This was our view of the Camden Harbour from the waterfront restaurant we had dinner at. I had the best "Crustacean Sensation" sandwich here. Also had my second bottle of Pumpkinhead beer made by the Shipyard brewery in Portland Maine.

We also did a wine tasting at the Cellardoor Winery in Linconville.

Day 11 - We decided to spend the day in Rockland. After another wonderful breakfast at the Inn we went down to the American Eagle dock to thank Captain John for such a great sailing experience & meet Sherri the patient girl on the other end of the phone when I booked, postponed & rebooked our schooner trip.  Peter took some pictures of the departing schooner & we waved her & her crew & new guests off.

Captain John waving goodbye

Back to the Inn to just chill for a while. Speaking of the Inn, here are the promised pictures.

The house was a gift from a husband to his bride. It was designed to show case her beauty. The fireplace in the guest parlour was situated so that guests would see the Lady of the house as she descended the stairs. The funny thing was that it was not a working fireplace just a focal point. The third floor was the ballroom.

The Carriage house where our room was.

Each night the bed would be turned down, the radio was playing softly and there was silver tray of chocolate kisses.
 There was a guest kitchen in the main house & carriage house. It had a fridge stocked with pop, water & ice cream with enough room to put your leftovers from dinner. There was also a microwave, two coffee pots with fresh brewed coffee every morning at 7am & two types of pies made by the inn's own pie moms. Oh & the door inside the bathroom was our double shower. They called it the car wash because it had two banks of three shower heads all individually controlled. We had a double Jacuzzi tub as well.

This is Thistlehair. He has travelled on many trips with us. The first was when Greg was just 4 months old. We took Matthew, Melanie & Greg on a camping trip to BC. He has always had a bit of a nose problems since Greg chewed the leather off it on that trip. Every day we would leave him on the bed & house keeping would put him up against the pillows. Peter got him a mug of coffee & we let him eat all the chocolates.

Well we spent the afternoon wandering around the shops in Rockland. We found one where the owner let me pick out sea glass to make into a necklace.

Got dressed up for dinner. Yes she does clean up pretty good. For dinner on the water, yes again. I could get really used to this.

This was the view from our table.

Went for a drive after dinner & we saw this.

Day 12 - Rockland to Trenton via the Pemaquid Lighthouse. After another wonderful breakfast & reluctantly checking out of the inn we headed south. Yes we were supposed to go north but we wanted to go to a place that made wind bells & to visit a lighthouse.

Many harbours have Buoy bells or chimes to mark the way in the dark & fog. We picked this one up at North Country Wind Bells. It has the same tones as the Castine Harbour Bell. Castine Harbour was where we spent the night of the storm on the Schooner so it seemed approbrate.

Pemaquid Lighthouse

Lots of stairs. Yes we climbed up them to the top. The last bit was actually a ladder. It was harder coming down then going up.

Belfast had some interesting benches.

This was the place we ate at in Trenton. Wasn't fancy but it was good. I had the best lobster roll in all of Maine here.

The inside. Peter had pulled pork & I had a lobster roll. We shared.

Day 20 - If you're wondering what happened to Days 13 to 19 check my previous posts. 

The last day of our trip. We started the morning in Peterborough going to the lift lock on the Trent Severn water way. We didn't expect to see anyone there but we were in for a surprise. Not only were the Lock workers there but a boat was going through the lock. They let us go out to the control house in the centre of the lock & watch the whole operation. Here are the pictures.

Bottom of the lock.

Yes that is a road going trough the middle of the structure.

From the top.

Here she comes

Loaded in

Left side going down, right side coming up

She is down & out of the lock heading to the next lock which we followed her down to.

First another fall shot. Lots more colour then we saw on our first day. When we went on our honeymoon 26 years ago, all of the leaves had fallen. This time they hung around to give us a spectacular display

A more traditional lock. This one hand turned

And on she goes.

A woodpecker Peter spotted.

The weary traveler is home.

Would we do it again? In a heartbeat! We have already decided we want to do the longer Windjammer cruise on the American Eagle when she comes to Canada at Nova Scotia. Quebec City is a must as well. Must start saving our pennies.

 OH This is the bonus picture.

Some of the souvenirs we brought back. We tried to sample local bears where ever we went & thus brought home a few plus wine from the Cellardoor Winery in Maine & Maple Syrup from Quebec city.