French Toast on Juneteenth

Mainers are friendly, they have a great accent, their state is incredibly gorgeous and they seem to protect their environment with heart and soul.  That is, so long as your not a lobster!

Today we are anchored Down East in Roque Island Cove after a sail that sailboats are made for, yesterday. (17-20 knots on a broad reach with our happy sail up much of the way!) The beach is as beautiful as any exotic one that you would find in a brochure marketing luxury honeymoons. 

The only catch is that the water is a cool fifty-one degrees.  In other words, we are very careful not to fall off our paddleboards!  

Over the last week, the weather has been ‘Peggy Rockefeller perfect’ and we have been enjoying  Maine’s largest benefactors’ land trust and then some throughout Acadia National Park.  One chatty guy told us that the Rockefellers didn’t need or want a boat, but they bought a big one just to keep Hinckley from going out of business. Judging by the magnificent Hinckleys we see in harbors up and down the Maine coast, we are glad the boatyard was saved.

After enjoying the peace and quiet of Little and Big Cranberry Islands, we had our first restaurant meal since March in North East Harbor- fried Haddock at a picnic table followed by Giffords ice cream, of course.

In Bar Harbor, we watched its namesake sandbar come and go on laundry day.

And, in North East and Somes Sound we hiked mountains.  Literally, we hiked Bald Peak, Parkman, Flying, Valley Peak, Saint Sauveur, and Acadia Mountain. They were relatively small, but we put a lot of mileage on our boots.

Last remarks – A shout out to Amanda and Daren on SV Panda, the first cruisers we have met thus far- was great fun to meet you, and thank you for explaining to me how to use a pressure cooker! 

This morning I made French toast (no, not in the pressure cooker) with Adirondack maple syrup and eggs from the farmers market that I now know can keep ‘fresh’ up to two months, if never refrigerated. 

Michael finally took down our torn and undersized American flag and put up our new, bigger one. 

While watching him make the change, I had so many thoughts in my head, but the first one was that black lives matter.