More Maine

Next stop, Winter Haber, about 15 miles from Rockland, across Penobscot Bay.  En route we passed through Vinyl Haven and who should pass us in his boat?  Artist Jamie Wyeth!  He’s the one in the back with the curly dark hair.   He did turn around and wave - I thought it might be in bad taste to take a picture then.

We also begin seeing the beautiful schooners, so much a part of the Penobscot Bay.

Arnie & Margie came to the boat for dinner and Arnie showed us how to cook and shuck the mussels we had collected.  

Yum!  The dinner was great!

Guess what we found in the mussels??? Pearls!!!  Two tiny ones.  Luke & I had the remaining mussels tonight (Aug 6) and found a black pearl!  I need to find something to do with them. (yeah, I know, terrible picture)

We did a little exploring in the dinghy before dinner.  A partially submerged row boat (Arnie said it has been here for years).

And look a that current!  Eddies swirling in the deep water as the tide changes.

On Friday Luke & I set sail for Frenchboro, a small island of a dozen or so lobstermen and their families. 

We saw seals!  Lots of seals, basking and sleeping on the sunny rocks of several "ledges", small rocky islands that are awash or submerged at high tide in the 11 ft tidal range here.  They remind me of dead fish scattered about.

The anchorage in Frenchboro is beautiful.

You can see the Acadia area from there.

We took the one of the log lined trails around the island.

Lots of fresh, new purple pine cones.

Some of the trails lead to the other side of the island, with its rock beaches.

Those beaches are really made of rocks, round, tumbled rocks of various sizes.

Back through town, past the little church

 On to the only restaurant on the island for lobster, and a good nights sleep.  We left early on Friday, braved the fog for about 12 miles, complete with lobster floats and toggles,  to the Mount Desert Island (Acadia), and anchored in Somes Sound. Somes Sound is a six mile long "glacial river valley drowned by the ocean among the geologically old, rounded mountains of Mount Desert Island". This is the only fjord on the eastern Atlantic seaboard.  We took one of the free buses from Somesville to Bar Harbor and did  laundry and groceries.

Today we are waiting out the cool rain in our cool dry boat.  Tomorrow should be better weather, so we'll go to town and be tourists.