Coastal Maine And The Millikin's

We spent the night Wednesday in a little cottage type motel north of Camden, Maine. It was old and small but very clean, safe and in a beautiful part of the country. Thursday morning we drove less than a mile up the road to a state park. We drove to a lookout to view the harbor and surrounding area. 

It was gorgeous down at the water but a little hazy up there. It was still breathtakingly beautiful though.

The town below is the little harbor town of Camden. It is like a miniature version of Gatlinburg on the coast.

Kelly Jo took some pictures with the external zoom on her iPhone. 

Kelly Jo spotted and photographed a very rare camoflauged Odius Podius iPhonius in its natural habit.  (Speaking with a Aussie accent)  Wow! Look at the size of it. Isn't it beautiful? What an awesome creature. I've rarely seen one of those in the wild!

The picture below was taken with the zoom from the harbor. It is the same rock as the one in the picture above.

This is the whole lookout from below in the harbor. This picture is zoomed in quite a bit too.

This is the harbor we were taking pictures of from the lookout mountain. It is the beautiful city of Camden.

Bilbo Baggins gets a visit from Odie the Hobbit.

Sorry, Odie. I could not resist this picture.

After lunch we drove just a few miles south to Rockland. 

At 4:00 we met the Millikin's at the Lobster Pound for dinner. We had not seen them since PFYC and it was good to spend a few hours with them. We had a great meal and a great visit with our dear friends.

A storm blew up while we were eating and it was beautiful.

Then we followed the Millikin's back to Rockland where they are preparing to begin tent revival this weekend. Bro. And Sis. Catalano pastor here in Rockland. We met them 11 1/2 years ago in Florida. We were preaching revival down there and they were on vacation. They are super people. The Tent Revival is is being held at the Catalano's church.

The Reynolds family from Portland Maine are supplying the whole tent setup and helping put on the meeting too. They have been sponsoring and holding tent revivals for decades.

Bro. Jimmy and Sis. Shauna treated us to some of their favorite ice cream. It was delicious!

Sis. Shauna sent us a few pictures too.

We had a great evening spending time with dear friends, renewing old friendships and making new friends. I wish we had more time to stay. It would be great to attend tent revival and there are so many other things to see in this area. But we must press on to the tent revival in Vermont.

Thanks for reading. 

Davy

Travel Day, Seafood and a Light House

We started Wednesday back at CDB to meet Sis. Esther again.

Kelly Jo loaded up in Esther's van and Odie and I followed them north toward Maine. It was less than an hours drive to Kittery, Maine and Warren's Lobster House. The DiZazzo' and several other folks highly recommended Warren's and we were excited to give it a try.

The advertise a fresh salad bar and fresh seafood and they deliver on both. The salad bar is not the biggest in the world although it is big for this part of the world. Everything on it was really fresh and we all really liked it.

The seafood was excellent. KJ and Esther hand fried haddock, Odie had a shrimp pasta dish and I had a baked haddock crusted with crab. We all enjoyed it very much.

Before Esther turned back toward Boston she took us north to York to visit Nubble Light House.

The light house is actually on an Island. I am posting lots of pictures because it was beautiful. Google "Nubble Light House images" for some unbelievable pictures.

I was trying to get Esther to smile and I ended up getting her tickled. It was so funny at the moment.

Then we had some awesome ice cream just up the road.

We said goodbye to Esther and then we headed north to Camden, Maine for the night. We hated to leave Esther but she is going to Vermont this weekend for the tent revival services there. That is going to be great.

We pulled into Camden about 7:30. This is a gorgeous seaside town. It was getting dark when we arrived but we hope to explore a little before we backtrack a few miles to Rockland this morning.

Today we hope to spend some time with the Millikin family before we move on. They are here preparing to begin tent revival Friday night. It is going to be so good to see them. I will try to get some good pictures of them.

I am posting the blog each day on this trip from my phone and iPad. There are lots of things that are difficult to do in Blogger without my laptop so I hope it is formatting correctly. Kelly Jo shot two short clips with her phone of the water by the Light House and they look great on her phone. I tried to post them below but I can not tell if they are showing up or not. I hope they do.

Davy