Sept. 12 thru the 16th - Central and Southern Maine

Sept. 12 - Pemaquid Point (#10) and Five Islands Lobster Company (#11)

Pemaquid Point Lighthouse.  Pretty cool and even visited on the annual Open Lighthouse Day.  Didn't go to the top though because the line was long.  Lots of nice views around the lighthouse!

Checking out Fort William Henry at Pemaquid Point.  A "reconstructed" fort except for the foundations here.

A fort with a view....

Another trip for lobstah....Five Islands Lobster Compay....our favorite of them all.

To cap the day off watched Sparty whip the Ducks in a great football game....

had to hold our breaths a bit at the end but a win it was!

On Sept. 13, we traveled south to a campground in Wells, Maine....the Sea-Vu Campground....

and yes it has a view of the sea!

Sept. 15 and a motorcycle ride to see the Nubble Lighthouse, south of Wells.  Really nice!

A Maine beach...lots of beaches here....some nice and sandy and long....some rocky and small....

Took a ride through Kennebunkport on Sept. 16th.  

This is the Bush Estate at Kennebunkport....owned by Bush Sr. but Bush Jr. and Jeb have houses in the compound too.  Roughin' it at the "cottage"....

Our 6th and last lobster dinner in Maine....a pretty good one too at Bayley's Lobster Pound east of Biddeford.

Map for the 15th and 16th....#1 is the Bush Estate....#2 is the Nubble Lighthouse....

#3 Bayley's Lobster Pound.

Heading to Long Island New York Tomorrow Sept. 17 to visit college buddies there.  Gonna be fun pulling the fifth wheel through New York!  Then on Sunday heading out of NY for Florida so we hopefully avoid a traffic nightmare getting out of the city.

Sept. 11 - Our Anniversery

After moving to a new campground about 100 miles south, we headed for lobstah dinner at Gurnet Trading Co.  So many places to choose from so we just hope we pick a good one.

Waiting for the cute little lobster pager to go off.....

Finally!  Another great lobster dinner with some shrimp chowder on the side.

After dinner we drove towards the water and ended up at the end of Bailey Island.

 

A couple of lighthouses way off in the distance.

Cool rocks that looked like petrified wood and a monument to Maine Fisherman.

Drove by the Sea Dog Brewing Co. on the way back in Brunswick/Topsham.  Pretty cool town and the place was packed.  Hard to drive by without stopping....

Four of five more lobster dinners in Maine, then it's south to Long Island.

Sept. 7 thru Sept. 10 - Nova Scotia

Here's the plan....almost 1400 miles in 4 days....turned into 3 days because of the weather though.....

The ride to Nova Scotia was a nice warm day.  Really strong winds at the northeast end of the Bay of Fundy though.....like 40 mph or so!  Not a lot of fun on a motorcycle.  Saw a big motorhome that blew off the road.

The Bay of Fundy has the most extreme tides in the world.....up to 53 feet between low and high.  These are mud flats exposed at low tide in the distance.

Tuesday's ride to Cape Breton and the Cabot Trail started out ok, but then got cool (60 deg), foggy, and wet.

Good lunch stop though to warm up and dry out a bit....that is a big bucket of mussels....Greg ate them all.....!

Foggy on the east side of the island....still some great scenery though.

Started to clear up and warm up a bit as we rode over the mountains to the west side of the island.

A good view of probably the most photographed spot on the Cabot Trail.

More nice scenery and old homes and churches heading south towards Antigonish.

Made it back to Antigonish....cold but not too wet.  The next day we headed to the south shore of Nova Scotia and Halifax.  As we got closer to Halifax the sea fog got thicker, the temp cooler and us wetter.

Neat old boats....

Foggy bridge at Halifax.

Kinda cool.....

After lunch we decided to just head back to Bangor, Maine where we left the camper.  Getting away from the shoreline we had nice weather and went 600 miles that day.

Gonna rest up a day and then time for more Maine Lobstah!