George Bush's summer home.

The Portland Headlight.

Showing the neighbors Norman's website.

Kennebunkport Blowhole.

Thunderhole!

 Acadia Park Shoreline

Drive through lobster shack!

Lupine flowers!

KENNEBUNKPORT AND FREEPORT

Today we ventured to Kennebunkport the weather was as beautiful as the town itself.  We strolled through the town looking at all the shops.  The kids got a nice lesson about lobsters at the local fish market. 

Our next stop was George Bush's summer house and a local blow hole at Walker's Point.  There is a place in the rocks, along the water, where the waves come in at high tide and fill in a hole, which causes the water to spray straight up out of the rocks.  We spent a good hour getting wet from the ocean spray and basking in the sun.  Time for lunch! 

We drove down to Cape Porpoise and found a little hole in the wall place right on the water and enjoyed some fresh clam chowder and hamburgers and hot dogs!  Even though the seafood is all around us you just can't beat a dog or burger when really hungry!  We headed home and realized we were about to pass the candy store Len Libby's we kept reading about.  We stopped in to see the world's largest Chocolate Moose on display inside.  He was 1700 lbs of Milk Chocolate.  Back in the car to head home....

The next day we went up the coast to explore more of the coast.  Maine has a lot of peninsulas, so travel is slow by the coast as we found out.  We wound up in Cundy's Harbor and happened across a small ice cream joint, (a staple in our days lately) right on the bay, which had a gift shop next door.  In the gift shop, I struck up a conversation with a nice lady who ran the shop.  She was a real salt of the earth type of person, friendly and knowledgeable of the Maine coast and her husband was a lobsterman to boot.  She told us about the weather patterns, lobstering, and any other questions we had about Maine.  She probably spent a good hour with us walking around the shop and then out on her dock to the lobster traps and letting the kids play with her black lab puppy.  Its nice to get out of the hustle and bustle and spend some time with a local who was as nice as could be! 

We finished the day off walking through the outlets in Freeport and visiting the original L.L. Bean Store - which was huge...it had four separate buildings for different departments and an outlet store.



BAR HARBOR


Its 55 degrees, drizzling and the wind is blowing! I can't believe its this chilly only a few days from July! Every time the wind blows a little stronger, the rain from the trees drop onto the trailer roof, reminding us how nasty it is outside. I have turned the HEAT on in the trailer and it works quite well if I do say so myself. We are in Bar Harbor, Maine!

Yesterday we went to "Thunder Hole" another blow hole on the ocean shore.  The waves were huge!  I would say some between 10-15 feet tall crashing into the shore line boulders!  I probably took 50 pictures and still felt like there were some good shots that I missed.  The cold waters are so clean looking and full of life!  We found a baby fur seal perched on the rocks but didn't have the camera to get a picture. We had soup and "popovers", one of Karen's favorites, at a place called Jordan's Pond restaurant.   The popovers were fantastic.   The rastaurant overlooked the "Bubbles" - two mountains that were formed by glaciers and look like bubbles, it was a beautiful view.  We finished the day driving through the park looking for deer! 

We have barely scratched the surface of this beautiful area and have already decided to extend out stay a few days.