This is our neighbor's apartment door. they leave their shoes in the hallway and in the winter there is always a pair of big heavy boots. This is what I see every day when I open my apartment door and look across the hall way.
We went looking for Moose and drove into the parking lot for people whose boats were in the lake. We thought it might have lake access but it did not. There was a trail leading out from the parking lot, but we saw that it was very soggy and neither of us were wearing boots that could cope with that much sogginess. We did see many outcrops of Lupines along the way and these were in the parking lot perimeter.
These two trees seem to be guarding the "necessary room" on the edge of the parking lot.
We found the boat launch and this was one of the cabins there close to the lake. It was Mooselookmeguntic lake that we were at. It is a very pleasant little village and it seems that you need to have lots of $$ in order to stay overnight in one of the cabins and that does not include your boat launch etc.
Mooselookmeguntic lake is 35 miles long but I forgot to ask how wide it is. They can catch salmon and trout in the waters while they are still cold, but in the middle of summer when the water warms up there is not much in the way of fishing success.
This is the public boat dock on the right.
This is the private boat dock and is on the left of the picture. It seems to me that if the lake water touches both docks, what makes one more special than the other? I guess the fees you pay to dock your boat?
The sign says it all - back your trailer carrying your boat into the water at the boat launch and away you go. One sign says that you are not to feed the waterfowl and another sign tells you what kind of non native fish you can catch.
Private beach. Well I did not walk on this one because I could not see where there was a beach to start with. To me a beach is wide swaths of sand, screaming seagulls, roaring ocean and sunburn.
About 2 o'clock is a 3foot pile of sand that passes for a beach and the groin that is in the water is the marker that tells you that this is where you swim. Well, I do not put this body in cold water and this water was icy cold so there was no fear of me ever invading their "beach".
Looking down the lake to the mountains.
Looking straight ahead from the floating dock.
Looking back towards the cabins on the shore.
more cabins
A very willing yellow eastern swallowtail butterfly feeding on a dandelion. I actually took about 6 pictures of him and this was the closest he would allow me to get before he flew away.
When we were coming back from Vermont, I saw these sheds and they were loaded with boats. I wondered if they were storage sheds but some of them had boats for sale in them. How do you get them up in these upstairs holders and better yet, how do you get them down. This was a sales lot for boats at a town called Oquossoc.
the second shed in the background was already empty but there were many boats for sale in the lot on the other side. In fact, they spilled out onto the road and I wondered if we were driving on a road or a sales lot for boats.
This is the view of Mooselookmeguntic lake from the highway above it.
This is the Androscoggin watershed park area. It has been put into law that no one can build in this area. Unfortunately a group of speculators and developers have won a fight to build homes on the shores of Moosehead lake further north. Many of the staff in the Archives were upset to learn that this has passed muster and will become a reality. Anthony says that only the rich will be able to build there and the sportsmen who go up there just to fish will be crowded out and not allowed near the shores of the lake. Well, we will see and it will not take place till we are far away from Maine.
This is aobut as close to a live moose that we got.
This is about as close to a Loon that I will ever get.
Someone painted Moose tracks on the pavement next to the rocks that have been deposited in the area centuries ago during the ice age.
The Mooselookmeguntic Lake sign telling about the area and giving names to each point of interest.
this shows a picture of men holding a bunch of fish that they caught in the lake.
The Appalachan trail comes through here. I have often thought of trying to hike the trail but I am afraid that those years may have passed me by. Will have to settle for the Pea Vine trail next to Watson Lake in Prescott.
Looking back up the road in the direction we came.
a man doing some peaceful fishing on a lake that is part of the Mooselookmeguntic system. We could hear peepers singing in the marsh at the edge. We also saw moose tracks by the side of the road - they were made when the area was wet from the recent rain, but are dried now.
another view of the lake with the peepers. We really hoped that we would see Moose but they were not near the lakes we visited.
This is the Mexico public library. Here in Maine, there are many countries represented, Mexico, China, Norway to mention just a few. Seems like people who settled here liked the names and the area and so melded both together.
This is the Androsocggin River. It is very swift flowing at this point and has some really wicked looking rapids. On a visit to Durango many years ago, I saw some people in little Kayaks doing their best to navigate the rapids on the river there. It looked pretty scary to me but they were having a blast. I was told that the people were training for the Olympics. Guess they are desperate to get the gold medal that they will do anything to practice for it - even be in the cold snow melt waters in the Animas River in Durango.
this lady was painting a picture of the rapids of the Androscoggin River. She was packing up to go home because it was getting too hot sitting there.
This lady was also painting a picture of the Androscoggin river but she was painting the house across the river with the river in the foreground. She was wise, she had an umbrella to shade her but the breeze kept trying to take it away from her.
The rapids at the Androscoggin.
further down the river there were more rapids.
These Lupines were gracing a local graveyard on the banks of the Androsocggin river. This is a very peaceful place and very calming. I wish that Lupines grew in Arizona.
I was taken on this journey by my friend Sue who lives here in Maine. She was interested in finding a Moose for me to see, but instead, we had a wonderful scenic drive around Maine and it was also a time to grow a friendship even more. We only have 100 days left on our mission and still no word as to where we will end up come July 1. Homeless comes to mind!
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