Cobscook Bay State Park was very pretty and the campground was nice but the next day was a must-go-to-grocery-store-and-find-a-laundromat kind of day. We got up that morning and Trox took a spin in the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge just across the road from Cobscook. He was hoping to see lots of Wildlife but did not. He didn't even come home with many pictures. Once he came back and we broke camp we headed southish towards Ellsworth. Along the way we stopped for lunch at Long Pond where I got a paddle in and he took a dip.
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| Trox claims this is a bird I swear it is a monkey! |
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| Warbler waiting to be identified (of course) |
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| Our lunch spot along Long Pond |
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| The short crossing of Long Pond |
In Ellsworth we found an RV park where we decided to stay for the night and dropped off the kayak then on to the grocery store and even more important the laundromat! We got all our errands completed and headed back to the camp spot. The next morning we got up early broke camp and headed back into Ellsworth for breakfast at a little diner. It was YUMMY and a real treat! From there we headed towards another state park with camping - Lamoine State Park. It is close to Acadia National Park and we weren't sure we would be able to find a spot but we did. Lamoine is a nice park on a bay. I am not comfortable paddling on salt water - I did enough of that in the 70s while scuba diving the California coast - so we consulted the map and found a little pond nearby and so once we had set up camp off we went Blunt's Pond. Along one side of this little pond is a nice park with a sandy beach and a great place to put-in and take-out. I went for a paddle around the pond which was only a little over a mile around and came back with lots of information for Trox. There were some neat ducks but I couldn't get close enough for a pic; I could hear a kind fisher but couldn't see him; there was a BIG bird - maybe an eagle or osprey - but my pictures were very blurry. Loaded with that information Trox took off and did he hit the jackpot!
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| Blunt's Pond This lake must freeze hard enough for snowmobiles to cross it in the winter. I spotted these trail markers at water's edge |
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| Blunt's Pond I LOVE paddling on flat water |
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| Blunt's Pond The Osprey! | |
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| Blunt's Pond Not only did he find the Osprey he found the nest! | |
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| Blunt's Pond AND the King Fisher held still long enough for a few pictures! | |
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| Blunt's Pond Once again these are Blue-winged Teals This picture shows the pretty blue |
AND THEN after our paddles I drove Merlin back to the campsite and Trox rode his bike with a slight detour further down the road to Lamoine Beach. Next morning when we broke camp we drove down to the beach so he could get some pics and I could see the beach. From there we headed towards Machias and two more state parks. The first one was Fort O'Brien State Historical Site which is known as one of the birth places of the US Navy. Not a very big park but a very pretty setting. From there we headed on down the road to Roque's Bluff State Park. This is a unique area in that on one side of the parking area is the ocean with a nice sandy beach and on the other side is a nice fresh water pond. We didn't stay there long because we had to find a place to park and neither of these parks allow camping. We had asked some women earlier in the day if they knew of a place where we could camp and they suggested Rocky Lake so off we went to check it out. We arrived about dinner time and found a spot. That is where I am sitting now as I type this. Trox paddled the lake early this morning and I will paddle it later if the wind dies down. We are also going to return to Rogue's Bluff to explore and paddle that pond.
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| Lamoine Beach A juvenile gull of some variety |
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| Lamoine Beach Gulls and Eider Ducks Bird behavior can be rather entertaining The Eider is the largest of the ducks They feed mostly on mollusks | |
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| Along the road between Lamoine Beach and Lamoine State Park Great Blue Heron | |
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| We spotted this beautiful Osprey's nest along the road between Lamoine and Machias and stopped to watch. |
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| Ft. O'Brien State Historic Site | |
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| This antenna farm is HUGE! It is the US Naval Radio Station located across Machias Bay from Ft. O'Brien |
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| A side stop in Machias not my idea but I took full advantage! |
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