Blanche & Lucy spend a full day on the mid-coast area of Maine

Before we left my brother's place in Waterboro, Maine we decided to take the top down and do one more road trip along the coast with Blanche & Lucy.

If you've never been to Freeport, Maine - its a place we recommend you spend at least a few days exploring. Freeport was made famous by L.L.Bean and it's grown as an outlet store destination for anyone who loves famous retailers.  But L.L.Bean is our favorite - it's open 24/7 so if you can't sleep you may find yourself shopping.

The L.L.Bean properties include 4 buildings, a concert park (that has free outdoor concerts all summer) as well as a relaxing picnic park and cafe.  And you'll find everything from Kayaks, and Canoes to Camping,Fishing and Hunting gear and clothes to beautiful furnishings and accessories for the home as well.

Blanche and Lucy's favorite was this gigantic boot on the outside of the store...

Check out the door handles.... you could easily spend days in this store - but we were in a hurry so we moved on to other sites to visit...

Boothbay Harbor is one of my favorite little coastal towns - here is the town church.  Boothbay is the halfway point that we always chose to stay over whenever we went to Bar Harbor.

Very interesting use of an old Tug Boat - this is now the Tugboat Inn and Restaurant -  and inside is just as interesting as the outside.

 

We poked around the gift shops in Boothbay and found these adorable birdhouses made from Buoys... very clever.

We found the area behind the gift shops more interesting - the waterfront.

One of our favorite colorful areas is this Bike and Kayak rental shop on the waterfront area.

The kayaks are new and equipment is up to date - you can go out on your own or you can go on the tour with a guide along the waterfront.

The kayak paddles looked like beautiful flowers to me.

These folks rented two 'doubles' to go kayaking together.

If you read 'Down East' magazine - you will always see the reviews and write ups about Red's Eats as the best place on the coast of Maine to buy a Lobster Roll - however the lines never seem to get smaller - so we went next door.

Sprague's Lobster had no lines, but it had picnic tables and was on the water - so we opted for quick service because we were too hungry to wait in line.

We shared an amazing bowl of Fish Chowder, loaded with haddock, shrimp, clams, and lobster meat and we also shared a Lobster Roll that was so full of sweet yummy lobster that we couldn't have finished one alone...

After getting a few bites of our lobster roll Blanche relaxed in one of the cute deck chairs that were on the deck.

Here's a creative way to use an old row boat - a planter now.

There is no shortage of Lobster Buoys here in Maine.

And if you want to eat indoors - there are lots of cute and interesting restaurants along the waterfront in Boothbay.

Wiscasset, Maine is a little coastal town just south of Boothbay.  This is the Wiscasset General Store and as you would expect it carries all the 'general store' items from penny candy to dishes and toys.

Wiscasset is a little coastal town build on a hill of the waterfront - so all the streets lead down hill to the waterfront area.  Architecture is beautiful -  they have kept the buildings in tack, deciding to restore instead of tear down.

This adorable little cottage of antiques is leaning to the left a bit - but very charming - just like all of us....

 

The waterfront area is beautiful and very 'New England' -like a Norman Rockwell painting in beauty and serenity.

We sat on a bench on the wharf and just watched the sailboats, & kayaks.

Cheryl and Lucy decided to walk to the end of the wharf to be down on the water level to the boats and action.

Blanche & I stayed on the upper deck wharf to watch the tour boats.

A water level view of the little orange rowboat - shot by Cheryl.

And the upper deck view of the same little orange rowboat by Cheryl.

And an even closer look at the graphic elements of the boats.

I couldn't help but notice the similar orange color on the Adirondack chairs.