Tuesday was a busy travel day for us. We left Ellsworth after breakfast and headed down the Maine coastline on US-1. Each little town along the coast is at the head of a bay. Before and after each small town is a road that leads down the peninsula to the point. Some of the points have lighthouses. We visited two lighthouses and several ports.
We stopped in Searsport and found the Penobscot Mariner's Museum. The museum is a collection of historic buildings in the center of town. There are several houses with displays inside and then outside are the barns and boathouses filled with a variety of small to medium boats. We spent most of the morning wandering through and then drove across the street to the harbor and had a picnic lunch at a city park overlooking the bay. It was hard to get up and leave. We just wanted to sit and enjoy. Perhaps it was the hard picnic table bench that helped us along. Fortunately we didn't get out the folding chairs as we might not have gotten out of town before dinner.
We stopped in Camden and wandered around the port, watched a schooner dock and let it's passengers off, shopped, and ice creamed! Carol found some dresses for the granddaughters and a new top. We drove out to the Marshall Point lighthouse. Eventually we jumped on I-95 for the short drive into Portland and our Comfort Inn. After settling in we drove to downtown Portland and had dinner at Street and Co. Very fishy but Carol liked it. I had a good grilled tuna steak. Very ritzy with excellent wait staff (Fodor's pick!).
We stopped in Searsport and found the Penobscot Mariner's Museum. The museum is a collection of historic buildings in the center of town. There are several houses with displays inside and then outside are the barns and boathouses filled with a variety of small to medium boats. We spent most of the morning wandering through and then drove across the street to the harbor and had a picnic lunch at a city park overlooking the bay. It was hard to get up and leave. We just wanted to sit and enjoy. Perhaps it was the hard picnic table bench that helped us along. Fortunately we didn't get out the folding chairs as we might not have gotten out of town before dinner.
We stopped in Camden and wandered around the port, watched a schooner dock and let it's passengers off, shopped, and ice creamed! Carol found some dresses for the granddaughters and a new top. We drove out to the Marshall Point lighthouse. Eventually we jumped on I-95 for the short drive into Portland and our Comfort Inn. After settling in we drove to downtown Portland and had dinner at Street and Co. Very fishy but Carol liked it. I had a good grilled tuna steak. Very ritzy with excellent wait staff (Fodor's pick!).
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