You may be thinking lobster – she’s in Maine, they are everywhere! And you are right. However, this lobster aficionado is a purist when it comes to lobster. No lobster rolls mixing the delightful morsefuls of meat with slabs of greasy mayo that deflects the flavor of the crustaceans. I eat mine whole and alive until just boiled before it lands on my plate. In fact, I use very little of the melted butter because I prefer the full flavor of the lobster.
So we began our journey headed towards Boothbay Harbor. Bruce, who is a native of Maine, had never been. We started off with hiking boots on ready for a two mile hike to some waterfalls sans bug spray. We made it 100 yards before the buzzing began and we were attacked by the little buggers. Running for the car, we had to be quick to make sure we didn’t bring along some hitchhikers.
As we drove along we happened upon an Amish community. I quickly googled Amish and found that there are three such communities in Maine.
According to the article, they live cohesively with the local farmers and have started some small businesses of their own.
We came across a field of old farm equipment.
And very old houses!
On our way through the Town of Wiscasset, we stopped at the old jailhouse.
Wild roses are in bloom!
A drydocked lobster boat!
Everywhere we looked there was something beautiful! This was wildcat creek.
We finally arrived in Boothbay Harbor and found Mine Oyster Restaurant.
We had a nice little table from the upper deck with a view of the harbor.
The inside of the restaurant was so typical Maine, especially the great amount of chopped wood.
The oysters were delicious. Our waiter, Ben, told us which ones to order. There were four or five varieties on the menu.
Our first lobsters were filled to the shell, sweet, and delicious, with little water. Neither of us had trouble getting our hands fishy.
They even served on Bavarian China.
For an after lobster treat we went to the local ice cream place. I had a kiddie pistachio nut cone and Bruce had a cup of Maine blueberry ice cream.
We even had a nice view while we ate our ice cream.
It was a fabulous day and time to head back to the cabin. On the way we found this old church or what we think was an old church.
It was across the street from an old graveyard.
We made it back after a fun filled day to a little bit of sunshine.
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