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| Camden Harbor |
Camden is the quintessential Maine coastal town. Lovely, quaint, full of tourists and boats.
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| Camden Harbor is PACKED. Floats are used instead of mooring balls so more boats can squeeze in. |
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| Schooners docked at the head of the harbor. |
Various cruising sites suggested going to Rockport instead and biking to Camden. Wonderful idea. In Rockport we grabbed a mooring ball from Rockport Marine and made that our home. The wifi was STRONG so we were able to ride out a rainy Tuesday onboard watching Netflix.
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| Hello, Mr. Seal! |
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| Rockport Harbor and Rockport Marine. |
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| Jenga piers made of granite. |
We biked the Beauchamp Point road to see all the huge houses,
visited the belted Galloway cows,
checked out the old lime kilns,
hiked to the top of Mt. Battie,
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| Our view of the Gulf of Maine. It was a bit HUMID. |
hung out in the lovely library in Camden,
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| Original library on top. New addition underground. |
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| Stone benches - with books - in the library garden. |
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| Amphitheater at the head of the harbor. |
played with the funky ducks,
ate lunch in the old mill,
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| Like all mill towns, a river runs through it, to the harbor. |
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| Ladies' room at the Smokestack Grill built right into the stone ledge. |
walked, shopped - the usual! There are schooners EVERYWHERE. So beautiful on the water.
Rockport was also the home of Andre the Harbor Seal. A friend of ours grew up in Maine and remembers coming to the harbor to see Andre and watch him "perform" for the kids.
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| Andre, the seal, looking over his harbor. |
Maine Sport Outfitters had a small pond out back for testing kayaks. We did. We bought. A 10.6' Old Town Dirigo that is easy to launch and retrieve and is fun to paddle around an anchorage.
Life is good.
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