Eco Visits the Southern Coast of Maine

[ECO]

This week I took a ride up to the Southern Coast of Maine for a few days to visit some of my family. I ended up staying with my parents who rented a condo on the beach in Old Orchard Beach which is about 30 minutes south of Portland Maine. As always, not many words in this trip report but I'll fill it up with photos

We started in Portland where we walked around for an hour and ended up eating at a seafood place on the water that only served deep fried haddock......I ate chicken. I have never heard of a seafood place that only has haddock and only serves it one way.

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[ECO]

After playing around in Portland for a few hours we went to Cape Elizabeth to take some pictures of the shore line and the lighthouse. All around the lighthouse there are tons of old forts but the underground portions have long ago been sealed We ended up just staying there for 30 minutes or so since the area is filled with tourists and I don't want them in my pictures.

Speaking of tourist, when I was setting my camera down and running like a madman to get in some of my shots they reacted like it was a bomb!

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[Wahoo]

Great pics! Is that anywhere near Kittery Point? Spent an hour or two at the fort at Kittery Point years ago.

Oh yeah, I'll take 3 dozen of those cherry stone clams. Steamed...with lots of melted butter.

[ECO]

Great pics! Is that anywhere near Kittery Point? Spent an hour or two at the fort at Kittery Point years ago.

Oh yeah, I'll take 3 dozen of those cherry stone clams. Steamed...with lots of melted butter.

About 30 minutes north of Kittery, this is their website is http://www.portlandheadlight.com/

I can't help you with the cherry stone clams but I'm willing to buy anyone a pound of that "fish parts" stuff if they eat it in front of me.

[Rose21]

Beautyful pictures!!
I didn't know people buys fish parts
What do they make with it-fish stock?

[ECO]

Beautyful pictures!!
I didn't know people buys fish parts
What do they make with it-fish stock?

I'm thinking either some sort of fish stew or they leave it in their x-spouses car on a hot weekend.

[Wahoo]

Still waiting for those cherrystone clams! The service here is terrible...no tip from me.

I luv old lighthouses, too. In the seventies, the US Coast Guard maintained a campground at the Cape Hatteras (NC) lighthouse, and my GF and I camped there for a week. The old lighthouse was moved a half mile inland in 1999 to escape the encroaching Atlantic. The spot where it had stood and where we camped is now well out to sea. The Cape Hatteras lighthouse now stands as far from the crashing surf as it was when it was built in 1870.

[ECO]

The beach area in OOB is packed during the summer, I use live there 15 years ago and remember the wild times during the summer. As fall and winter set in the town becomes a ghost town! With only a week left of the summer season, the streets and beaches were almost empty.

Some views from the place that my parents rented.

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