2016 5th Stop: Booth Bay, Wiscasset, Pimaquid, and Southport

The campground at Booth Bay was great.  Look at this picture and you can see that our site looked directly over a picturesque inlet from a lovely wooded lot.  We had our first campfire because the weather was cool and pleasant.  (Sorry to my friends back home in Maryland suffering through 105 degree heat index readings!)

We walked around Booth Bay Harbor that has lovely little shops and a tempting assortment of restaurants offering seafood.  We settled on a bowl of chowder (Charlie had clam chowder and I had lobster chowder) at a little place looking over the harbor.  The dirty martini made it perfect!



The next day we drove to Damariscotta and visited the little shops and galleries and then stopped in Wiscasset to do the same.  Of course, when in Wiscasset it is mandatory that you stop at Red's Eats for a lobster roll.  As you can guess from the picture, there is a continuous line at Red's during the six months of the year it's open.  Why, you wonder?  Because each lobster roll contains more than a pound of fresh lobster served with warm butter.  Oh my.  And like every other Maine eating establishment, they offer homemade cake loaded with wild blueberries.  I have to say that Maine wild blueberries are the sweetest I've ever tasted.

Pemaquid Lighthouse sits high on a granite point.  The Coast Guard offers tours of the lighthouse itself, the keepers house has become a museum, and the ubiquitous Maine art gallery shares the grounds of  Pemaquid Point Lighthouse Park.  The location is lovely, with breezes to cool visitors who are climbing the rocks or having a picnic lunch at one of the shaded picnic tables.  Charlie searched the shoreline for sea glass to no avail which I enjoyed the company and the view from higher grounds.








One of my favorite things is seeing cairns in our travels.  Charlie came upon these on Pemaquid Point beach.  Can you spot them all?

Our excursion to Southport gave us the opportunity to take in more of the beauty of many coves and inlets of the Maine coast ...and to enjoy a haddock sandwich and clam chowder.