Day 22

Wow, day 22 already. Time does fly when you're having fun.

We drove to Freeport and Rockland Maine to explore the sights. Our first stop was the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. This lighthouse was built in 1899 and is still in use today. The jaunt on the breakwater rocks to the lighthouse is farther than it looks. It was amazing that the huge granite rocks that make up the breakwater were cut and stacked to perfection. The lighthouse stands at the end of the breakwater to direct boats into Rockland Harbor.

After leaving Rockland, we drove to Camden Maine with a short stop in Waldoboro Maine to pick up a couple of "Whoopie Pies". These are Maine's answer to the Moon Pie. They are cream filled pies of different cake types. Most are made of chocolate but they also make pumpkin cake and many others. (see photo of pie below)

The drive back to Belfast was very scenic. There are many houses which we would call mansions in California scattered on the drive along the coast. I like that they normally don't have fences in the front or rear yards and the lot sizes are giant. I would guess that many are at least an acre.

One of the many awesome homes along our drive today.

Another beautiful house.

We saw these cows called "Belted Galloways" I think this is where they got the idea for the Woopie Pies.

Chocolate Whoopie Pies

The seemingly short breakwater (4,800 feet) to the Rockland Lighthouse. They said it took 750,000 tons of rocks to make this breakwater. I wouldn't have wanted the job of making these rocks line up so neatly. You can barely make out the lighthouse at the end of the breakwater.

This is a look out to open sea from the Rockland Breakwater. The clouds look like they are just about to open up with one massive rain storm.

This is the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse.