Greg on Lobster #3!
Sunset off the Angelique
At rest on the Angelique
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday July 21,22,23, 2008
I am going to sum up the cruise is a short amount of space with just the highlights. The first night on board was a little rocky… I snored and had to get up at 4am to use the “head” and of course that woke Greg up because he is scared to death that I am going to fall getting into and out of the top bunk. That was remedied by me moving to the next cabin which was conveniently empty. So for the rest of the trip we had our own rooms with bottom bunks. We sailed out to beautiful wind, saw many islands, lost the wind, found it again and then settled into Buck’s Harbor for the night. It was chilly and overcast so the crew all jumped in the 60-something degree water for swims. There were 4 big Windjammers all anchored close and there was a meeting of people in the water between them all…pretty crazy. That night we also saw the most amazing rainbow ever. It was so close and started in the water and ended in the water. It then became a double rainbow. I hope the pictures turn out! Food is served either down below or on deck and is passable and there is lots of it. More sailing, eating, reading, talking to new friends. On Tuesday night we anchored off the coast of Caldwell Island which is owned by Maine and had a lobster bake on the beach. I ate 2 lobsters and Greg ate 3. They were new shell lobster (recently molted) so they were easy to get into…no crackers needed. Wednesday we still did not have good wind so we motored back to Camden and we got back on the road headed to Moosehead Lake. It felt really good to be back on the road. I don’t think we will be doing this type of Windjammer again. Not much to do on the boat all day except read and talk.
We arrived at Lilly Bay State Park outside of Greenville, Maine and got a wonderful campsite that we can stay in for 14 days (we won’t). We decided to go to Kocadjo which is about 8 miles north of us because they have a steak place and we don’t cook on the 1st night in. We arrived at Kocadjo and the road turned into a dirt road. All we saw was a trading post, but inside we could see people eating so we went in. Pic-nic tables inside, menu on a chalk board with no prices, but there were lots of people and they looked happy. Big screen TV playing the news. We ordered a glass of wine and the owner asked if we wanted large…of course we did but we didn’t realize that large was an entire tumbler filled to the brim! The owner turned the bottle upside down to fill our glasses…I’ve never seen that done! Steaks and scallops were great as well as the view of hummingbirds feeding through the windows. We went home and slept great.