Searsport

Sunday, July 31

We once again rattled and rolled over Route 1, and made our way to Searsport Shores, an oceanfront campground overlooking Penobscot Bay, and about a mile down the road from friends Jim and Joan’s summer cottage!  Our site is one row off the water this time, but still a nice view, especially from inside the coach, where we are elevated enough to look over the smaller campers in the front row.  Only 3 sites that would accommodate us, and they were all booked, even though we called in April.  You could say a popular place!  

Artist loft

We discovered the wifi worked from in front of the office, so stopped there once to use it!

One of the wooly goats the woman used to make yarn. 

Joan invited us  for dinner, so we set up, then set out, and found her perched high on a hilltop with an amazing view of the bay, in a very cute nearly 100 year old cottage!  They preserved the rustic charm....ie, beams, no insulation or heat....but have painted and decorated in a nautical cottage theme, and it is adorable!  And did I mention the view!!  Wow!  

When we got back to the coach, I realized we have the same view, though not quite the same vantage point, about a mile farther west, so could see the port in the distance that she sees.  A deep water port, they bring in some freighters, and one was moored opposite us when we got back that night, and the next morning we were treated to watching the tugs come in and maneuver the big ship in to port, watching through our “picture window” , which is our windshield.