7-9-2010 Maine Day 6

Got a late start since the Farnsworth opens at 10. We got to the front door just as they opened it. We wandered in the main gallery then went to the Wyeth Center and then the Farnsworth home. I really like the illustrations of NC Wyeth, Andrew’s father – he did the Swiss Family Robinson and Treasure Island pictures that seem so familiar. In the Farnsworth house we saw a bedroom dresser set just like the one we have from my Mother’s collection. After the Farnsworth, we stopped at Atlantic Baking and got sandwiches.

Then it was off down the peninsula to see two lighthouses – the Owl’s Head Light (the picture with the stairs) and the Marshall Point Light. It was on and off foggy at the first – we could see a wall of fog just offshore. It is very strange being in fog and still being hot. We had lunch at Owl’s Head, sitting in a bench and watching the sea. The Marshall Pt. Light was very foggy.

After that, we drove back out to highway 1 and headed towards New Harbor where our Puffin Tour was leaving at 5:30. On the way we stopped at the Maine Prison workshop store. It was full of carvings and other wood products. Sue got a schooner and I got a lighthouse painting on a wood plaque. Some very fancy schooner models were there.

We got to New Harbor and still had time to head down to the Pemaquid Light. That was most neat, the fog had moved out and the views were great.

Back to New Harbor and the boat. The fog had moved back in and we were told that the trip would be bouncy (3-4 foot waves) and very foggy. It was. Sue did OK but she was queasy and felt the trip still the next day. We got out to Eastern Egg Rock and cruised around it and up and down the western side a few times, watching the sea birds fly around, land in the water and take off. The shacks on the island are blinds for the biologists who spend all their time there - dedicated! I got a good view of a few puffins. And one picture of something in the water that was a puffin and not a gull, a buoy or something else. She couldn’t look through the binoculars at all.

It was 7:30 by the time we were driving out of New Harbor. We stopped for dinner at the Moody’s Diner right next to Hwy 1. Great old place, I had a steak and we shared Blueberry pie and ice cream. Mmmmmm. It was 10:00 by the time we got to the Holiday Inn in Bath.