Bass Harbor Lobster!

Hi Blog! We made it to the coast.  According to the Mainers, we are "Down East."  To the rest of the world, we are on Mount Desert Island, near Bass Harbor, just south of Bar Harbor. Home of Acadia National Park!  It was the first time we encountered traffic in Maine. We were beginning to think that we were the only tourists in the state.  However, we found them all, including a motorhome that followed us all the way from Bangor. The other rig ended up passing us, but we caught up with them at the entrance to the campground. That's when we ran into the first snafu.

The other rig was blocking the entrance to the campground because the person in their site was still there - flat tire.  So, we had to wait in the road until they found a place to put their motorhome, while the other campers changed the tire. Kathy ended up standing out in the street directing traffic around our trailer.

Wait, it gets better!  Once the motorhome was out of the way, it was time for us to checkin. The site we reserved was a pull through site. However, another camper didn't pull far enough forward to allow us to pull-through. His back end was blocking the front of our site. So, the campground put us in another site. We started to get settled in and unhitched the truck, only to have the owner come out and tell us that we couldn't stay there.  We had to get into the original site we booked even though it was blocked.  They were trying to reach the owner of the rig blocking our site, but he didn't answer, so we waited.

After waiting around for over an hour, Dave decided to just back our rig into the site.  The road was wide enough, so the rig went straight back. However, all our utilities are on the opposite side. We were able to run everything under the rig. It took a little longer to get set up, but on the bright side, we met our next door neighbor, Joe. Joe is a lobster fisherman. Joe just got back from a lobstering trip. Turns out he takes orders from folks in the campground, goes fishing and them comes back and settles up. He had three extra lobsters today. He charged us $3.50 a lobster (not $3.50 a pound, but a piece!).  One of Kathy's bucket list items was to get a Maine lobster right off the boat. Well, they came off Joe's boat, so that's good enough for us!

All's well that ends well. So, our silver lining ended up being fresh lobster!

Bon Appetite!