Welcome to Maine

Bath, Maine

43 54.531 N 069 49.644 W

Maine has lots of charms. On our first day here we camped in The White Mountain National Forest. We got there on a delightful road, Maine Highway 133. It is barely wide enough for cars to pass. It winds up along the Maine/New Hampshire border, over and between those lovely mountains. Very cool.

Yesterday we made camp on the seashore near Georgetown, Maine. That promised to be spectacular. In reality, it was less nice. It was our first private campground of the trip. Is was very expensive and the facilities sucked. Worst was the access road to the camp site. It should have been restricted to high clearance off road vehicles. Our undercarriage scraped ground several times. Hope we didn't do any damage.

Between camping, we got to explore the city of Bath Maine. It is really charming. (Maine has nothing but charming cities along the coast.). We had been there once before on Tarwathie, but the only thing we saw then was the fantastic maritime museum. We didn't see the downtown or the city docks. Currents in the river are very swift, so we couldn't take our dinghy upstream. A low bridge prevented us from taking Tarwathie upstream. Sometimes when traveling by boat, one sees only a small sliver of the charms offered by a place.

TonightCamden, another lovely place. We are going to go to the SSCA gam on Islesboro Island on Saturday. That is a conference for cruisers. We will see many friends there.