Betty comes to Maine!

My dear friend Betty Miles came from Colorado Springs to visit Maine. We stayed at my family camp on the pond and enjoyed 3 full days of coastal fun and ocean views. The weather was beautiful our first day with sunny skies and unusually warmer temperatures for a fall day in Maine. We hiked Maide's Cliff which is at the border of the towns Lincolnville and Camden. This hike has views overlooking Megunticook Lake and ocean views out towards Camden Harbor.

We went down to Lincolnville Beach to soak up the sights and sounds of the ocean. The ferry was making its way back from Islesboro so we sat and watched it getting back to the dock at the beach. Since the weather was so beautiful we enjoyed lunch outside on the porch with Caleb. After lunch Caleb got started on making a campfire so it would burn to plenty of hot coals to boil water for cooking lobsters!

Lincolnvile Beach ferry dock

While Caleb was tending to the campfire, we headed to pick up the live lobsters. One stop we made after getting the lobsters was at Point Lookout. It's a nice retreat/conference center which has views overlooking Penobscot Bay with many islands off the coast. You can see some of those views and other views during Betty's visit in this video. Click the bottom right icon to enlarge to full screen.

Point Lookout view

Seafood was on the menu for the week. We picked up live lobsters from a local Lobster Pound. We invited my aunt and uncle to join us for dinner and meet Betty. We made lobster rolls with the leftover lobster meat we picked the next day. We had fresh corn on the cob from the local produce stand.

Our 2nd day we spent walking around the shops in Camden and enjoying the harbor views during lunch. The restaurant we chose had a patio deck overlooking the harbor which made it feel unique and such a special lunch out. Betty enjoyed seeing the Cape Cod style houses around Camden. We made a stop at the small garden chapel with ocean views where my parents were married in Camden. And another stop at a little park on the edge of Camden showing a different view looking back towards the harbor. 

On our 3rd morning we woke up and noticed the fall colors around the lake had really popped! The pond water was very smooth like glass so we decided to go out for a canoe ride. It was a cloudy morning after 2 days of sunshine but the clouds didn't matter because the leaf colors were so vibrant we didn't miss the sun. We oohed and aahed during our canoe ride as we rounded bends on the lake and more color would pop into our view. It started to get a little cloudy and sprinkling rain so we canoed back to the cabin.

We enjoyed visiting inside listening to the rain and when the rain stopped headed out for some more Maine coast fun for Betty's last day in Maine. Mt. Battie is a hill in Camden Hills State Park which overlooks Camden Harbor and also has views far out into Penobscot Bay and looking south along the coast of Maine. You can either drive up it or hike up it. Betty and I decided to drive up for this trip because there was more we wanted to see during the day. 

Mt. Battie view of Camden Harbor

Betty pointed out a lighthouse on one of the posted maps at the top of Mt. Battie. We noticed from looking at the map that we could see the lighthouse in the distance which you see in this picture below. I zoomed in close to take the picture and saw it looked like there was a way to walk out to the lighthouse. I had never been to this one in all my times coming to Maine. Thanks Betty for noticing this lighthouse!

We had plans to check out a couple other lighthouses but this one intrigued us seeing it from this aerial view and it was a closer drive than another lighthouse. The Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse has a about a mile long walkway of granite you can walk across the bay to get to the lighthouse.

This shows the breakwater granite path with the lighthouse almost a mile out in the bay. 

We both loved the experience walking out to the lighthouse. We saw seagulls catch starfish in their beaks and were hitting them on the rocks. A pretty sailboat was in the bay making it's way into Rockland Harbor to dock. We saw a lobster boat speed past the lighthouse into the harbor and could see the lobstermen pulling the lobsters out of traps and throwing into their bins to unload at the dock.

Our second lighthouse stop was Marshall Point Lighthouse out on a peninsula. The sun was getting ready to set while we were taking our pictures. The old lighthouse keeper's house had a nice museum inside with some history of the lighthouse and the surrounding port towns on the peninsula.

Betty, thanks for coming to visit us and see Maine! It is always fun to have people visit when we are at different travel nurse locations. And it is especially fun to show family and friends the beauty of midcoast Maine - a place which has always felt like a second home to me.