Coastal Maine...the beautiful

We spent our last day in Millinocket with a couple of Pierres old classmates..wonderful people! Later they drove us all over to look for more moose, but they would not come out and play! I figured after having seen the mum moose and her baby, the stink of desperation was gone from me and Moose would be knocking down my door...but alas no... she and her baby were my only moose sighting. 

Paul and his lovely wife Lynn gave us some moose meat..so I'm going to have to try it! 

I wish we had had more time to get to know his friends better...they were super nice!

When we left Millinocket, we drove over to Lubec Maine, it was settled by the French people who came from Nova Scotia and it is the easternmost town in the contiguous United States. Located on a peninsula Lubec Maine overlooks Cobscook Bay in the Bay of Fundy and it  has a large lovely harbor, super deep water for the larger vessels, is never obstructed by ice, and it is well protected from rough seas by points and islands. Harbor seals frolic in the strong heavy current, playing and feeding. 

We stayed in a wonderful RV park, it overlooked Johnson Bay! It was small and the people were so friendly. We drove to downtown Lubec and went into a pub that overlooked the water, the harbor seals were feeding and I could not resist going down to the water to watch. 

From my vantage point, I could hear them just making quite a racket...it was super cute! But as I stood there listening to them and watching them, the tide began to change, so fast for example, that just looking down at my feet, I could see the water receded...fast. There are only two tides here, and they are huge, up to 20 ft...yep that's right!....most of them are upward of 17 to 18 ft. As I watched,  the seals all began to leave and more and more land began to appear, and as I walked out further and further into the bay, I looked down and low and behold...sea glass..lots and lots of sea glass everywhere! What a treat, of course I had to fill all my pockets with beautiful colored sea glass! 

The next day we took a drive along the coast and visited some of the cutest quaint villages I have ever seen! 

Most of Maines coast line is quite rocky and littered with large and small Islands. It is quite the sight! We went to Castine Maine, home of Maine Maritime Academy, this is Pierre's Alma Mater, he graduated in 1974, quite some time ago, but everyone treated him with the utmost respect! They gave use a tour of the school ship and they let me pilot a ship through New York Harbor! Ha ha...of course it was a simulator, but I did wonderful... no running us aground nor did I hit any other vessel... the coast guard came along beside us for awhile! It was a great simulator, it made you feel as if you were really on a ship rolling waves and all! as we were leaving the building we came across a model ship that was on display, it was the Lyra Lykes! that was a ship that Pierre was Captain on when he worked for Lykes Lines! i
It was nice to put a face to all the tings I have only heard about!

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