Sunday

No breakfast this morning--as we were a bit late leaving the house. Instead of going to Bar Harbor today, as we intended, after seeing so much traffic on Rte 1, we decided to go to Ellsworth.

Our first was the tidal falls. It was a beautiful area--an eddy with some rapids and a nice picnic area. Heath was especially intrigued by a green crab in the rocks. Bob tried to retrieve it, but it was tenacious and stayed in the rocks.

After driving to Ellsworth, we stopped at Finn's for lunch. Our favorite pub, I guess. We had a sampler appetizer plate: deviled egg, mozzarella sticks, lime potato salad, deep fried haddock, deep fried artichoke. We also had an order of Irish nachos--fried potato chips, covered with Irish bacon, salsa fresca, sour cream. We were just getting started: Bob had blackened chicken sandwich with fries. Antoinette had deep-fried crab wraps with a jalapeno tartar sauce. I had a roasted veggie wrap with potato salad. Heath had a burger and fries.
Lunch was at Finn's--YUMMY! We did some shopping in two shops and we were ready to move on.

Most of the time when Bob and I explore a side road, it's always the seaward side, so this time we picked the opposite side of Rte 1. We drove miles of country road through small towns like Franklin. Though we saw the Shalom winery, but it looked scary, so we decided not to go, We found our way to Tunk Lake, finally.  It was beautiful--Bob and I must go kayaking here. It was huge and surrounded by lush forests. We even saw an old, small house that advertised "Indian Food here"--no Thank You!

Home dinner was sausage, peppers, potatoes and onions and pizza. For dessert, pazooki (chocolate cookie--warm, with vanilla ice cream, chocolate and caramel sauce, topped with Cool Whip).
Another night of rain so we couldn't have a fire--AGAIN.