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Today we drove down the next peninsula over to Pemaquid Lighthouse. We had lunch in a restaurant/gift shop on what was once a porch overlooking the ocean. We had a wonderful view of the surf breaking on the rocks below. Food was good too. Encountered my first pay toilet in decades. BTW, most of the campgrounds here have pay showers too. We have been using the one in the camper since we have a sewer connection and do not have to worry about a full tank.

We think we were here with Jane and Roy about ten years ago but do not remember the restaurant. Plus they have added an artists gallery. I shot a million photos trying to get one of a wave actually breaking on the rocks and failed. Gene says its because a digital camera thinks about it after you tell it to shoot.

Just up the road is a fort or a site where several forts had been. They had dug up a lot of artifacts and had them in a museum. It was interesting to see pottery from all over the world from the 1600 and 1700's. English teapot, French wine glass, etc. And a little carved piece, perhaps a good luck charm, made from Elephant ivory. It had come a long way and is indicitive of the tenacious nature of those who sailed the seas in those primitive times. They had exposed foundations of several buildings and built a reproduction of one of the forts. The day was beautiful, the view was breathtaking, the wind was whipping. Temp about 80.

Before dinner we took a walk and discovered a part of the campground we had not seen. We stopped to watch some neighbors play a game where you throw a bolo at what could be a drying rack and you get points depending on which rung it wraps around. Judging from the cheers we heard before and after our walk, they played for hours. Just after that we found a babbling brook that runs behind the sites just a few down the hill from ours and then into the river at the bottom. The sites to the left of that have river views and then there is a path leading to an "island" (high tide perhaps). You walk across a low place with marsh grass and onto this wooded island which was shaded and delightful. On the far side are rocks from which to fish. This is the best campground I have ever been to as far as the sites. On the other side some are in a meadow with limited shade, but they face a pond with lilies and a fountain in the middle. Shore Hills, Boothbay, Maine. This is our last day here as on Sunday we will go to the more populated eastern shore of Penobscot Bay where Camden, Rockland and Rockport are.

While we were on the island the wind started blowing in earnest, as in gale. It was the cold front we had been expecting. The low for the night was 52 and high for today predicted mid 70's. This is what we came to Maine for.

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