Bezabor: (writing from Brunswick, ME ) The fine weather continues--- beautiful blue skies with temperatures in the high seventies and low eighties, nights in the high fifties. We spent Saturday in the Ocean Park area. Labashi and her buddy went to the beach and I did my log entry for the 10th (below) and then went walking at Ferry Beach State Park-- about two miles of looping through the park's trail system. Back 'home' the three of us had a lobster feast and, yes, we overdid it. We've not had lobster in quite a while and it surely tastes different here.
On Sunday we slept in till almost 0900 and had a terrific Maine brunch then took a drive through Old Orchard Beach and on to the Scarborough Marsh, Maine's largest salt marsh. We checked out several of the launch ramps at low tide and took a walk at the Scarborough Wildlife Reserve and then a shorter one at the nearby Nature Center. Sunday evening we took Labashi's buddy out to one of her favorite restaurants--- Royal River Grille in Yarmouth. 'Buddy' and I started things off with a chocolate martini and we all had excellent meals. Great place!
Monday morning we (again) got up late and finally decided we had to get back on the road. We left shortly after noon and only made it as far as Freeport where we stopped at good ol' LL Bean, looking for wet-suit bottoms for Labashi. I already had mine from a trip a few years ago to the Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium and know that the waters of Lake Superior were so cold that even on hot days you need something for your legs.... and that assumes you don't overturn and find yourself gasping for air in the cold water. She found some Hydroskins pants to her liking and I debated upgrading my kayak rack but decided I'd better do with the setup I have. We spent the night at Winslow Park just outside Freeport. It's a nice little town-run park with waterside sites for $22 so that seemed OK after having been camping free for the last few nights at Ocean Park. I backed the van into the campsite and then opened up the back doors wide and put on the bug screen so we could sleep with the breeze coming in from the bay. That worked well--- we had a half-moon and when we'd awaken during the night all was ghostly. We awoke at 0615 or so to a spectacular sunrise.
We took our first sea kayak venture of this trip this morning, right at the campground. There's a nice boat ramp there and we had showers afterwards. We launched on a falling tide and paddled on a mirror-smooth bay over to a nearby marina then circled back across the out-going tide. We were only on the water about an hour and a half but that was about right. No reason to overdo ---- we need to work up to the longer trips. At the take-out we talked for awhile with a couple just launching their sea kayak-- a beautiful Aleut-Sea II fiberglass tandem--- now THAT's a sea kayak. We gave them a tour of our little home on wheels and then they were off. That Aleut-Sea II is, if memory serves, 22 feet long and goes like a bat out of Hell. All that waterline length and two paddlers.... it's perfect for this type of sea kayaking.
This afternoon we dropped in again at LL's and picked up a guide book and it paid off right away. We read about the Peary-MacMillan Museum in Brunswick and thought that sounded just right--- interesting and free! We enjoyed that very much and noticed an art exhibit in the same building so did that and then explored the 1902 building. Very impressive!
We checked my listing of wireless hotspots and found that the Curtis Library in Brunswick has one so that's where I'm writing from today..... - Bez.
On Sunday we slept in till almost 0900 and had a terrific Maine brunch then took a drive through Old Orchard Beach and on to the Scarborough Marsh, Maine's largest salt marsh. We checked out several of the launch ramps at low tide and took a walk at the Scarborough Wildlife Reserve and then a shorter one at the nearby Nature Center. Sunday evening we took Labashi's buddy out to one of her favorite restaurants--- Royal River Grille in Yarmouth. 'Buddy' and I started things off with a chocolate martini and we all had excellent meals. Great place!
Monday morning we (again) got up late and finally decided we had to get back on the road. We left shortly after noon and only made it as far as Freeport where we stopped at good ol' LL Bean, looking for wet-suit bottoms for Labashi. I already had mine from a trip a few years ago to the Great Lakes Sea Kayak Symposium and know that the waters of Lake Superior were so cold that even on hot days you need something for your legs.... and that assumes you don't overturn and find yourself gasping for air in the cold water. She found some Hydroskins pants to her liking and I debated upgrading my kayak rack but decided I'd better do with the setup I have. We spent the night at Winslow Park just outside Freeport. It's a nice little town-run park with waterside sites for $22 so that seemed OK after having been camping free for the last few nights at Ocean Park. I backed the van into the campsite and then opened up the back doors wide and put on the bug screen so we could sleep with the breeze coming in from the bay. That worked well--- we had a half-moon and when we'd awaken during the night all was ghostly. We awoke at 0615 or so to a spectacular sunrise.
We took our first sea kayak venture of this trip this morning, right at the campground. There's a nice boat ramp there and we had showers afterwards. We launched on a falling tide and paddled on a mirror-smooth bay over to a nearby marina then circled back across the out-going tide. We were only on the water about an hour and a half but that was about right. No reason to overdo ---- we need to work up to the longer trips. At the take-out we talked for awhile with a couple just launching their sea kayak-- a beautiful Aleut-Sea II fiberglass tandem--- now THAT's a sea kayak. We gave them a tour of our little home on wheels and then they were off. That Aleut-Sea II is, if memory serves, 22 feet long and goes like a bat out of Hell. All that waterline length and two paddlers.... it's perfect for this type of sea kayaking.
This afternoon we dropped in again at LL's and picked up a guide book and it paid off right away. We read about the Peary-MacMillan Museum in Brunswick and thought that sounded just right--- interesting and free! We enjoyed that very much and noticed an art exhibit in the same building so did that and then explored the 1902 building. Very impressive!
We checked my listing of wireless hotspots and found that the Curtis Library in Brunswick has one so that's where I'm writing from today..... - Bez.
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