There are some miscellaneous things I have noticed here that I forgot to put into previous blog entries. When we went down to Boothbay Harbor, the tide was flat out. It looked like it was never going to come back in again and the mud flats were all exposed. In the middle of the mud flats were people digging up stuff. I suppose they were digging clams but Anthony suggested that they were digging for fishing bait. I do remember the suction apparatus that people used at Caloundra to extract Yabbies from the sand bank so that they could use them as bait. If you did not dig up your own yabbies, you could buy them at the bait store. In any case, people were out in the mud flats, up to their knees in mud and digging furiously. It was at this point that I finally understood why some short pants are called “Clam Diggers”. Having no previous experience in this, I never understood why they were called such a funny name.
As we neared the Wiscasset Bridge, I finally saw “Reds Eats”. The line of patrons stretched almost to the bridge abutment. Art the Archiver said that we should stop and get food from “Reds Eats” but we were not hungry enough for the fare offered, to stand in line for such a long time in the blazing sun and 80 degrees. So we continued on into Bath and ate at Friendlys.
During the winter we saw trucks hauling trailers with Ice fishing huts on them and now I notice trucks hauling trailers with boats on them. There is not lack of lakes in this area so I guess for the summer you take out your summer toys – boats, fish poles, water ski’s, jet skis etc. and for the winter you take out your fishing poles for ice fishing, snow shoes, skis and ski poles and snowmobiles. There is not a lack of want for seasonal toys. No wonder they have the slogan on their car number plates – Maine, Vacationland.
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