Blogs from Camden, Maine, United States, North America

The day before and the day after my week of sailing, I was able to explore the town of Camden and a bit of Camden State Park. The town is a nice little town – good restaurants, tourist-y shops, nice walk and park along the shoreline. As I believe I already noted in a previous entry, it was also home, for a little while to Edna St. Vincent Millay, and it was here that she started writing her poetry. On Sunday, I planned to climb Mt. Battie, as it was part of the state park easily accessible from town. What I had read about the trail told me it was steep and short. A sign at the beginning of the trail confirmed it was only a ½ mile to the summit. So I started up. As ... read more

Wednesday June 21, 2017 Once again, I was up early, so I chopped up some melon for Tyler. It was a beautiful morning as we set sail from Pulpit Harbor – and I got to help raise the anchor! If I stayed on this ship long enough, my arm muscles would be awesome. I could definitely feel when the anchor went straight up and down and then again when we had to pull it out from the bottom – yikes! It was so nice, I took off my shoes and ditched my layers. It was a nice sail to Camden, and I found out the daughter of two of the other passengers just finished spending a year in Kosovo! How random. So we had a good chat about Kosovo and Eastern Europe. Sometimes I am reminded ... read more

It is Sunday morning and we have just ridden our bikes back into the centre of Bar Harbor from the not-downtown hotel. We wanted to take advantage of the sites without the crowds. The town is empty even though the Veendam cruise ship is anchored in the bay and tendering passengers back and forth. We walked around the town for an hour, took some photos, and made plans to spend the day driving around neighbouring Acadia Park on Desert Island. The rich and famous live here in massive, manicured to the hilt estates. Opulence, wealth, affluence, you get it. The Jone's outdoing the Jone's. There's no shortage of pleasurecraft anchored with both bow and stern lines, it reminded us of Avalon Bay at Catalina Island. We rode past spectacular beautiful scenic bays one after the other ... read more

Today Sally and I drove over to Camden, Maine for the afternoon. The drive took about an hour and it was over winding back country roads. Maine is a beautiful state. Very green and picturesque. Sally and I are amazed every day with what we have seen and can't imagine how it could get any better. We ate lunch at a little restaurant right on the bay in Camden. For those of you even close to our age, the tv show, Payton Place was filmed in Camden. The tv series, Murder She Wrote, although filmed in California, had its opening scenery shots taken in Christmas Cove, Maine which is close by to Camden. Parts of Steven Kings movie, Thinner were also filmed in Camden. We took a drive up to Camden Hills state park where they ... read more

Beautiful, sunny day, actually two in a row. Forget all that stuff about building an ark. It doesn’t get any more gorgeous. Now I know why the summers here are crowded. If it weren’t for winter, everyone would live here. The Workshop revives. The campus perked up. All the kids and even the old farts woke up, smiled and got very enthused. The change from the day before was remarkable. The new energy palpable. Today, Friday, is our last full day. On Thursday my class we worked more on Lightroom but those of us that didn’t feel like we had good enough pictures left to shoot some more. I went to Rockland. It’s a lot bigger than Camden or Rockport. There's a WalMart and Home Depot, along with all the fast food staples; McDonald’s, Burger King, ... read more