Amtrak
route - three states in two hours . . . small states
Ports of call
Our home away from home, the
Grande Caribe. Our cabin, which is one of six that opened onto the
deck, was on the other side of the ship.
Our cabin
View from our bunks - don't our feet photograph
beautifully?
One of the
trillion lighthouses we saw. This is an example of a "fireplug" house.
The Jason Dunham (DDG 109) awaiting christening
ceremonies. It was built at the Bath Iron Works.
Bath City Hall.
"Downtown" Bath
World's
largest lobster
What most people usually see in this area but, as
usual, we had great weather and very little fog.
We took a
tour of Acadia National Park and saw this critter on the way to the
park.
Scenes from Acadia
These hills are called "The
Bubbles". I renamed them "The Boobles".
Blueberries are all over the park and they've made an
industry out of them. They even had blueberry beer.
View of Bar Harbor from atop
Mt. Cadillac.
Boulders that were brought down
by glaciers are called erratics. This is an example. The rock is a
different composition than those on the mountain. It probably came
from Nova Scotia.
Another lighthouse.
Don't know if you can see all the lobster pot buoys
but I counted each and every one throughout our trip and there was
7,306,318,427½ of them. Each fisherman has a different color
combination for their buoys and you had better not touch one of them
(they can have multitudes of them). There was an article in the paper
about someone being shot and someone's property being damaged because
they took someone's lobsters. It's New England's version of cattle
rustling. Almost a hanging offense.
There was almost as many boats
as lobster pots. This was a sailboat race.
I was feeling a bit sluggish
this day.
Awwwwww . . . I guess they took their doggie ashore to go potty . . .
Oh
boy . . . the green sign designates the Dudley Cafe (for those that
don't know, Dudley is our parakeet's name).
This photo speaks for
itself.
Since Port Clyde is an island,
an amphibious vehicle is the only way to get building materials, etc.
to it.
D'OH . . . in an effort to
delete as many photos as possible, I deleted the actual lighthouse. We
walked almost two miles to see it and I deleted it. What a
dolt.
Minke
whale - one of the smallest.
Harbor seal
Fort William Lighthouse - the
most photographed lighthouse in the world (or so we were told).
Some fort in the Portland harbor.
A very holy gull.
Fort William lighthouse up close and personal
The inscription on the rock
says "Annie C Maguire shipwrecked here Christmas eve 1886"
Yummy, yummy farewell
dinner
Beverly & Jason (my sister & brother-in-law)
Guess who
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