We walked along the Eastern Promenade Path for a while and then found the City Marketplace to buy some lunch ingredients for later. . Then headed north and east on Route 1 out of Portland to make our way towards Ellsworth.
We stopped in
1. Rockland for lunch overlooking the waterfront
2. Camden to explore a park and follow a river as it disappeared upstream under buildings and reappeared in other places about a half mile, and crossing various bridges over it.
Found a shop that was selling all ice cream treats for half off on its last day of being open. We also found the underground library which had the nicest children's room I've ever seen in a library, almost too nice, because there were so many fun things to do that books probably don't get noticed. . .3. Searsport to stretch our legs at a waterfront playground and a game of follow the leader which included about 40 boulders up and down. . .Good prep work for all our rocky hikes in the coming week.
4. pull-off for a view of the bridge over the Penobscot narrows absolutely beautiful
5. old old town of Castine for dinner on the wharf. Jeff was amazed because a book he recently read called THE FORT is set in this town. He saw the fort on the way to the restaurant, and he did not pick that book knowing it was set in a town that we would be near.
It was a leisurely day of driving and eating and exploring and every stop seemed to be the perfect place to experience the coast of Maine. I had my first experience having a full lobster meal. . . .it was very good but the green stuff kind of grossed me out . .I wasn't expecting that part of it. . .
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