Aug 29th – perfect day in NE harbor ME.
Morning started with me making pancakes, eggs and bacon! Yumm oh by the way the pancakes were blueberry pancakes and each of us had ONE blueberry that Ben found the day before and we saved these only 2 tiny wild berries for breakfast! Amazing how we could be so disciplined to wait one day to eat those berries. The blue berry season is over so you find little stragglers one here and there. YTD we have found 5. Huckleberries are a different story where we have eaten many on Isle Au Haut!!!
After breakfast the mooring lady came whizzing up in her boat and asked us to pay. She was very nice, a 5th grade school teacher. She gave us tips of what to do today. We heeded her advice and perfection happened.
We went to Asticou gardens too pretty for words… heaven comes to mind. It is a walk way from the sea up the mountain beautifully terraced by a man that wintered on the island for 48 years, he died, but before he died so did his wife and son. No heirs… he made it a public place.
Then we walked through the mountain to Jordon Pond. It is so fun to walk a trail up a mountain that leads to a lake (but they call it a pond. It is maybe the size of two Lake calhouns.) We put out feet in the water and Ben tasted the water to see if it was at all brackish water… nope it was pure lake water. (don’t worry he did not drink the water.) there at the side of the lake was a sweet lodge and now café they have been serving tea and popovers since 1880 or so. We had iced coffee and popovers.
The walk was about 1.6 miles or so we think. Along the quiet and secluded trail we met the cutest red squirrel… The squirrel was scurrying around and Ben said, “Oh he is looking for handouts since he is so tame.” It seemed not. It seemed as if the squirrel was saying, “Hey buddy I don’t need hand outs watch me!” He nosed through some blueberry bushes and popped up with the most delicious mushroom (the classic red top with white stem) He chowed half of it in front of us then with the stem he bounded up the tree and “buried” it on a branch. Then as if to say, “If mushrooms are not plentiful then I run up this maple tree and eat these yummy seeds found right under the leaves.” This little creature entertained us for quite sometime and we have him on film eating the mushroom it is adorable. We don’t have strong enough wifi so we will post it on youtube or facebook later.
Did you know there are free… yes free… buses all over the island! You just hop on and off! So today we just scouted a few places of where we want to travel this week since we will be here one week then leave for Deltaville but heading out to sea… Now I wonder if my dad wants to track some of the hurricanes for us to double check our weather windows? Or if any of you all want to do that too? We have an email account with USBoat and they send out emails. Everything seems to be south and staying south and one in Bermuda one.. cant remember just not near us.
Maine is having the most unseasonably nice summer. The mooring lady called, “2010 the year of Maine’s perfect weather where everyday is clear and sunny.” That has been pretty much true in one month I think it has rained 4 times and we had sailed three of those days. So we predict this trend will continue thru the next two weeks as we start heading home.
Hey Rebecca if you get this we will make you our designated float plan person again since you did such a fine job before! Plans are (or ideas are) to leave sept 4 or 5th and sail straight from maine in Bar Harbor to Deltaville. (7-10days depending on weather.)
Tomorrow look at our “head” cuz it fills on its own, then possibly sail up the only fjord is US up to Somerville, then possibly moor in bar harbor next.
Miss you all
With tons of love and care
Pam
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