SoMDGirl42
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Shows you how long since I've been there. I said went I finally got to leave the great state of Maine I didn't care if I ever went back, and I haven't.
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Shows you how long since I've been there. I said went I finally got to leave the great state of Maine I didn't care if I ever went back, and I haven't.
Pete
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Best beach: Ogunquit---Cool town too: not far up the coast, kinda touristy, The beach stretches for miles with a brook that feeds from a marsh behind it.
Tides make acres of sand appear and vanish in a few hours. Sandy. I would go slightly early (Pre mid June) before NE schools let out for summer. 2 mile cliff walk south of town to a fishing village.
Best Light: Pemiquid (It is on the Maine qtr)...a little isolated, neat rock formations, good wildlife, inexpensive & picturesque.
Best Island: Monhegan: Take a shuttle out for a 45 minute trek to this Atlantic beauty: Trails, views, crashing surf, cranky locals:it is preserved, very few old vehicles Very historic.
Best Antiques: Belfast...do NOT try driving through on a Saturday!!
Best River for Kayaking: Androscoggin & Kennebeck
Best View: Cadillac mountain on Acadia
Best Museum: Augusta
This list will be altered again when I go up in June (for the 40th time)-renting a home not far from Acadia.
COOL story: After sadly packing up and driving out of Maine a few summers back we realized we were behind a Marylander on the Turnpike: We hit the toll booths down in NH and we followed them through it: ......THEY PAID FOR OUR TOLL!! How cool was that!
You should kayak the Penobscot
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desertrat
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I'd plan around BSG's pms if I were you
The most helpful post of the day!
GWguy
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That was going to be my vote too... Bar Harbor, Mt. Cadillac, not too far away is Thunder Hole, all basic "tourist" stuff.
Growing up, my dad had access to a cabin on Long Pond. We spent many summers up there.
donbarzini
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Whole with bellies?
Harry's in Westboro, Mass. with a lime rickey or Weathervanes in West Leb N.H.
donbarzini
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There's no other way. Best I've had were @Kelly's Roast Beef in Revere, Mass.
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I have faint memories of Revere. Revere Beach is one of the oldest memories I have going back to when I was 4.
donbarzini
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Nothing left there but a couple of the old restaurants. The rest is all condos.
desertrat
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I'd like to be very close to there, but those motel prices are pretty high. What about Ellsworth, Belfast or Rockland? Some cabins there that looked livable, on the water and half the price of the big Hotels for an efficiency.
GWguy
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I wouldn't know, last time I was up there was in the 70s. (Hmmm... guess I'm overdue for a visit) I'm sure everything is different regarding hotels/motels. In fact, last time I went up, a friend and I brought his boat up. We launched it at a state ramp, made camp on an island somewhere, don't even remember where, and made day-trips into town.
Pete
Repete
Check a place called "the Muddy Rudder" in Wiscasset. Decent hotel about in the center. You can wander either direction. Boothbay Harbor is just down the road, Freeport is not too far, Pemiquid is right there.
desertrat
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Looks real nice.
Hessian
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Wiscasset
took the kayak run from Sherman Lake to the boat dock in Wiscasset.
Managed to do well until wind & tidal shift beat me up. Even found an old wreck in a cove-&-photo of some seals too!
Did some antique shopping in town-great used book store down on the river.
My wife's Kin go back to the 1600's on that peninsula: SE of Bath.
I could spend weeks wandering & exploring around there.
took the kayak run from Sherman Lake to the boat dock in Wiscasset.
Managed to do well until wind & tidal shift beat me up. Even found an old wreck in a cove-&-photo of some seals too!
Did some antique shopping in town-great used book store down on the river.
My wife's Kin go back to the 1600's on that peninsula: SE of Bath.
I could spend weeks wandering & exploring around there.
desertrat
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That is quite a history.
Pete
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Phippsburg is the penninsula SE of Bath. I used to run around Winnegance. There are a couple of good fishing spots back in the woods along the Kennebeck.
I used to ice fish some in Sherman lake. I think it is the Marsh that runs into the Shepscott, I can't remember.
There used to be 2 wrecked schooners in Wiscasset, the Hesper and the Luther Little. Very cool but they broke up in a storm in the mid-90's and became a hazard so they had them cut up and removed.
Pete
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That part of Maine had a lot of history. Most of it is gone, not much down there anymore. Fort Popham is about it. There used to be 4 or 5 shipyards wayyyyyyyyy back in the 1700-early 1800's but there is nothing left.