2002 Maine Coast Vacation

AAAAHHHH . . . A MAINE VACATION - I had the delightful opportunity to get away for a week to my favorite spot on the Lord's planet: Mount Desert Island (about two-thirds of the way up the Maine coast). Had an awesome and invigorating time camping out at Tent Site #30 at Quietside Campground (on the southwest side of M.D.I.) doing some hiking, biking, sight-seeing, beach-combing, taking the bike on the ferry out to Islesford (yet another island), taking an hour-long sight-seeing flight in a single-engine 180hp Cessna SkyHawk, cooking breakfast and dinner in the Maine woods, rowing around Bass Harbor (dodging incoming and outgoing lobster boats), eating lobster, studying tidal pools, collecting a hefty number of M.D.I.'s characteristic red granite rocks, seeing millions of stars in the sky, watching red squirrels literally throwing themselves with abandon from tree-top to tree-top with their high-speed chases. I dubbed their acrobatic display "The Itchy and Scratchy Show," and they went at it every morning. Fun to watch. Other creatures and features observed, photographed and taped: lobsters by the dock, a bold little chipmunk in Camden, ME, a bed of starfish, crab dances, a number of lighthouses, rocks crying out (seriously!), et al. A real sense of wonder and awe came over me as I worshiped the Lord Who made such incredibly intricate and delicate beauty. All dat . . . plus -- I bought a small 8-foot rowing skiff. It is still being worked on by Charlie Clark, a boat-builder who also works at the campground. We tested it out in Bass Harbor on my last morning on M.D.I., and the craft is light and very portable. -- it zips along nicely on the water. Can't wait to pick it up next summer and use it to row around as many scenic harbors and shores as I can. I'm refreshed and revived and ready to return to the things the Lord has assigned me this upcoming year in Philadelphia and points beyond. The Maine motto is: "MAINE: THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE" I concur indubitably. Down below they-ah is a pick-cha of the unfinished skiff-ah taken at the shahp (still workin' mah Downeast accent). Lots of pictures from Maine can be found "he-ah". I think you'll really enjoy 'em.