That's never happened before!

We are way behind in getting travel posts published this summer because we're having too much fun traveling! So we won't be confused about when each "wandering" happened, we'll start each blog with its actual date.

August 12, 2022

We left our boondocking spot at the LL Bean headquarters in Freeport, and headed 58 miles up the coast of Maine. We have some shopping to do, with a stop at Walmart for supplies. We have company coming soon, so we stocked up on groceries, and then headed for Mic-Mac Cove Campground near Union, Maine. This is our first stay in a campground since we were in Rhode Island 12 days ago. This campground has water and electricity, but no sewer hook-ups. The owner of this campground is a one-woman show that does everything here, and she did something that has never happened to us before. Most of the camping spots are taken by people that stay for the entire summer, so she doesn't often have such a tall rig coming in for a short stay. She was worried that some of the electrical lines in the park might be too low, so she climbed on top of the motor home . . . 

and rode it through the park, lifting up low lines with a broom handle!

It was an interesting ride through this park with tall old trees and people staring at our unique passenger. That's never happened before!

After getting the motor home settled, we headed out to do some exploring in the pickup. Our first stop was the beautiful little town of Camden, Maine. Its harbor hosts private sail boats and tour boats that go up and down the coast.

It's a popular town, and finding a parking place can be a real chore. But we enjoyed a walk around town.

It has a beautiful white church on Main Street that looks like it should be on a postcard.

We don't go anywhere these days without checking to see if there's a lighthouse in the neighborhood. We have found them in some very remote places. The Curtis Lighthouse can't be seen from town, but we found this sign on the road that told us we were close to the overlook. We parked in one of the two parking spaces by the road and started hiking down the trail.

We eventually came to a cliff overlooking the water, with this pretty island right in front of us. We could also see a lighthouse on the edge of the island on the right.

We zoomed in closer . . .

and closer to get a good picture of the Curtis Lighthouse of Camden, Maine. Once again, our hobby of lighthouse hunting brought us to a unique area with a beautiful view.

It's getting late in the day, but we also made the drive to the nearby town of Rockland. We parked the pickup so we could make the walk down that long rock jetty.

It's 7/8 of a mile from the beginning to the end of the jetty. We're glad to say that the granite stones fit closer together and are smoother than some of the jetties we have walked lately. You might see that there is a reward at the end of this long walk into the ocean.

We got to the Breakwater Lighthouse just as the sun was low in the sky and lighting it up. You can barely see Denisa, standing just to the right of the red brick light.

It was a beautiful evening, and we felt like we were out in the ocean after that long walk.

The sun is getting low in the sky, so it must be time to make that 7/8-mile walk back to the pickup.

The clouds were especially pretty this evening as we snapped pictures of the boats moored in the harbor.

We had just enough daylight to drive to the town dock, where we had read there was live music tonight. We found out that the music was cancelled, but we felt like we still got a great show as we watched those billowy clouds turned to shades of pink.

With the pink colors of sunset reflected in the calm water in the harbor, we know that we have wandered into another of God's wonders. It's been an interesting day here on the coast of Maine. We started with our campground owner riding on the top of our motor home, and ended with a nice sunset in Rockport, Maine. It's fun being in a new-to-us place where we get to experience things that have never happened to us before.