We are staying at the Dockside Guest Quarters in York, Maine for a few days. It is a lovely B&B on the cove where the boats enter from the ocean. It is peaceful to watch the tide come and go. When the tide is in the water comes right to the edge of the sloped grass in front of the cabin. When the tide is out, large rocks can be seen on the wet sand.
There is a nice walkway across the highway that leads to a secluded small island. It has one of the small suspension bridges that allow boats to move from one cove to another. When the tide is up the water comes up a couple of feet from the pathway. When tide is out you can see wet sand. A quick look at the still water reveals the sand and rocks below like looking through a glass. A sign at the entrance to the walking path in the dense forest indicates that this land was donated to the city of York to always provide public access. What an endearing gift.
We have had inter-mitten rain over the past four days. I’m not a big fan of rain as sunshine cheers me up and makes me want to do things. I really hadn’t planned to wear jeans except on the plane. With the chillier weather, I have had jeans and a several layers of shirts on everyday. When you pack your clothes in Denver when the temperature is in the upper 90’s, it is easy to forget that extra jacket, long sleeved shirt or warm pair of socks.
We hopped on the highway, paid the two bucks toll as we entered the highway and the one buck to get off. This was worth the cost to quickly drive to the small towns up north where there were some lighthouses around the coastal area near Portland. The maps call them light instead of lighthouses.
We had been to some of these last year during our visit to Maine. Portland head light is accessed through Fort William. I was raining pretty hard and I just wanted to snap one photo. Luckily we didn’t have to walk so far from the main parking lot as there were not many people and we found that prime parking adjacent to the lighthouse. There is a lighthouse out in the ocean that I snapped a rainy day photo. It is so far away you can barely see it.
Last time we stopped off for some fresh strawberry pie at the restaurant right at the fork in the road on highway 77. Today is was too chilly and there was no sign out advertising the pies. This is near Maxwell strawberry farm.
Instead of pie we ventured to two lights in Cape Elizabeth. Stan seemed to remember how to get there as my navigating next to him was inept. You park in the lot and peek over the ledge. The most beautiful rock formation is perched along the cliffs. The rocks look like petrified redwood trees. It is the most amazing site. As you turn back toward land you can see two lights; one on the hillside and one nestled into the neighborhood. We took a ride up the hill and snapped a few photos of these lighthouses on Cape Elizabeth.
Next were two light houses accessed through the college campus of Southern Maine Community College. We followed the directions in the lighthouse tourist information and drove right to them. The first one the rain prevented us from a leisurely walk down the jetty for a close up view. The next one had a Greek influence of Corinthian columns. The rain had let up and the walk through this park out to the lighthouse was delightful.