Saturday, September 12, 2015
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Herring Cove beach
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M overlooking Herring Cove
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Hello from truly the back of beyond!
We woke to a fairly dry morning this morning,
(in fact, it’s about 3:30 p.m. now and the sun is actually SHINING!) and to
absolutely
NO WiFi connection!
Very difficult, to say the least.
(I really don’t like being that “off the grid”
and yes, I know I’m spoiled!)
So, after
showers, headed back to Herring Cove and the golf course and restaurant, as we
know they have WiFi, and we wanted to make a few changes in our plans.
R now thinking that three nights is one night
too many in St. John, as it’s really not that big of a place.
(I just Googled the population of St. John…and
it’s something like 68,000…I think R may be right!)
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Head Harbour lighthouse
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| Beautiful Blue Heron |
So, we have cancelled our original hotel
there (because we had planned to have Mom with us and needed the extra room)
and moved to a Hampton Inn (Hilton points!) and will now be able to spend an
extra night (the 15
th) in Boothbay Harbor!
Yeah!!
It will also make the drive from St. John to Boothbay, which is about 5
hours, much better than the 8+ hours getting to Bristol, CT.
So…nice to be able to make those changes on
the iPad!
Let’s hear it for WiFi!
Oh, and we also had breakfast at the restaurant. I had an interesting situation. The menu said “two eggs, choice of sausage or bacon and country
potatoes.” So when I got my breakfast,
with NO potatoes, I asked, “Where are
they?” Well, as I hadn’t mentioned them,
she “thought” I didn’t want them…duh…definitely not the brightest bulb in the
pack, but she did know the WiFi password, so I suppose I can’t complain too
much! Also, they had wonderful salsa for
the eggs, which I loved!
From the golf course, we headed down to Herring Cove, which
is obviously a great place for kayakers – we figured that out, as every car
(all four of them) in the parking lot had a kayak carrier on top!
We walked down to the water, and then up to
an observation point.
It’s really quite
a lovely spot, and it looks like they have some sort of small canvas tent topped
places to rent.
Our next stop was the Head
Harbour Lighthouse at the other end of the island (something like 11 km away;
it’s not a big island.)
It was a lovely
spot, but very windy, and as the tide was still coming in, it would be hours
until anyone can make their way across the sand to the point with the actual
lighthouse on it.
Lots of warning signs
about getting stranded and having to wait 8 hours to get off!
There was a huge great blue heron on a rock
outcropping which R was able to get some wonderful photos of.
I think we have now just about covered every
road on the island. We are surprised at how many places have “for sale” signs
in front of them, but this does look like rather a “hardscrabble” existence,
and who knows where the closest grocery store is (because the small store that
we visited last night was REALLY deficient in food – although we did find some potato
chips flavored like dill pickles…which we did
NOT pick up!)
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| Sailboat out in the harbour |
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| Welshpool marina |
I am so glad
that we came (and this has now added Warm Springs, GA and Hyde Park, NY to our “bucket
list” as other FDR/Eleanor sights…) but we are now about ready to move on to
St. John.
So, I’m thinking I will post now, before dinner, as we
currently have WiFi and who knows how long that will last?!
Love,
m
xxx
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