Maine, York - Monday, June 29, 2015 - Long Sands Beach

Even though it is still a little cool and breezy, we walked about two blocks down Long Sands Beach after lunch.  Nubble Lighthouse is one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world.

 

 

Today the tide is still pretty high so the beach is more pebbles and rock than sand.

 

 

I’m guessing these are called beach roses, they smell like roses and have buds like roses but their blooms are much looser than the roses I am used to seeing.  There are quite a few milkweed plants mixed in with them, not sure if that is on purpose or not, but they are good for the Monarch butterflies so I hope they keep them.

 

 

There were some treasure hunters out plus a few hardy swimmers.

Last night the waves were crashing up to the top of those cliffs in the background, definitely much calmer today.

Flagg’s looks a little better today since it isn’t pouring down rain.  Greg found out how to get the sewer hooked up – but we are still stuck and just mostly level.

The rest of the afternoon is going to be spent doing laundry.  I think Greg went through darn near all of his clothes yesterday getting things done in the downpour.  It was raining when we left the Bar Harbor area and still raining when we got here so he unhooked and hooked us back up in the rain.

We have to get the food in our freezer and fridge used up before we get back to Indiana next week and put the coach in the shop for two or three weeks.  So, this evening we are putting together beef and noodles for supper, Robyn and Jason are fixing something to go with it.  We have steaks thawing for tomorrow night.  By the time we get through the week our cupboards should be about bare.

Maine, York - Sunday, June 28, 2015 - Flagg's RV Park

We’ve moved to York, Maine to be close to where daughter Robyn and her family will be staying for the next week.  They are our first stop on this summer’s “grandkids tour” so we are looking forward to spending some quality time with them.

It took us a little over four hours to get here this morning and it rained the whole way.  Some of the rains were heavy downpours blowing sideways because of the strong winds.  Not a good day for driving or for much of anything else.

We picked Flagg’s RV Park off of the internet because it was the closest one we could find to where Robyn and Jason are staying.  I think there are some others that don’t advertise that might be a better choice, we’ll look around this week and see what else is available in the area.  Right now we aren’t going anywhere, we are stuck until the ground dries out.  The sites here aren’t paved or gravel, right now just wet muddy grass.

Hopefully tomorrow it will be a little drier and Greg can figure out how to get our sewer hooked up.  The hook up for this sight appears to be a piece of PVC pipe sticking out of the ground in an elbow – nothing like what we normally hook up to.

We all went to Lobster Cove for dinner this evening.

 

 

I chose the Lobster Pie which was big chunks of lobster in lobster bisque baked with crumbs on top, pretty tasty.

I tried to get a couple of decent pictures through the window of the restaurant to show the huge waves crashing up on the shore.  It was too darn cold and windy to stand outside and try to take any others.

It’s in the low 50’s with very strong winds – not exactly weather for exploring the nice beaches they have here.  We are hoping for better weather for the rest of the week because we are just a block from the beach.