We headed Down East to Winter Harbor for their 45th annual Lobster Festival; it was my first visit however since Winter Harbor is close to Prospect Harbor where Robin grew up she has been many times as well as ran in the race they have.

We arrived mid-morning and the streets were busy; stands everywhere selling different nick-knacks, etc. There were many different stands, a few which gave me an idea to possibly sell photos at events like this next year. We came across a tree that had been carved and painted to resemble a lobster claw, I thought that they did a great job. We met up with Robin’s mother and walked around for awhile until we decided to head to Schoodic Byway to look around and take photos. There’s an area that I know of that overlooks the ocean, the view can be seen while standing on a ledge of about 50 or so feet up. It has different holes that the Ocean as worn away at. It’s a beautiful area that not a lot of people know about and great for watching sunsets. This visit was more about exploring the surrounding area’s trails the lined the edge of the cliff rather than sitting at the edge together and watching the Ocean. We stopped at several other areas along the byway, one being a rocky shoreline that faced the East. We spent some time there looking for Crabs, Sandollars, Starfish and taking photos of the area.

Later on we drove to Corea and found a nice little scenic harbor view in which we took a few different photos. On the dock fisherman left their traps; we looked through them all to see if anything was left behind. We found a couple of Starfish that were alive at the time of the trap being in the water however when the traps were taken out and placed in the boat the Starfish limbs had dropped over the cages’ bars and hardened due to death. We looked around a bit, enjoyed the scenery and then headed home for the evening; I really enjoy finding areas like this that we can explore together and have a good time.

We decided to head up to Kokadjo to visit with Dad, pick Raspberries (The best fruit ever) and to possibly kayak. This weekend was the start of August and it’s near two week straight of warm weather- nearly the first all Summer. The weather was 78 with mostly clear blue skies and sporadic southern breeze.

We arrived to the camp at around 2PM, talked for a few minutes and then Dad brought us into an area that had a lot of Raspberries; and area that I wanted to show Robin as she has never visited Big Lyford Pond. We started picking in an area that look like it had been cleared (trees cut down) a few years ago and the trees, plant life, etc. Within an hour we had about a quart of berries between the both of us, we moved on to a similar area down the road and continued picking until Robin came across fresh Bear poop and moved further down the road where we found a good sized berry patch as well as blue berries. Altogether we picked about 3 quarts of Raspberries and a 1/2 cup of Blueberries after about 2 hours- normally in that time frame we’d pick about 6 quarts or so.

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