Raising Maine

This was one of our island stops that people who do not own boats can get to (it's a stop on the Casco Bay Ferry Line).

The first thing we had to do once we got to the island was buy an ice cream at the island store. It was just one of those things we had to do.

We ate our cones while walking down the road (across from the store) to the other side of the island to visit the ocean side beach (which we were told was a really pretty beach - and it was).

We found interesting things to look at during our visit to Peaks Island last month and have figured out that maybe the island residents around Casco Bay enjoy enhancing the scenery a bit for their summer visitors.

We might have forgot our bathing suits (me not thinking, although I was tired from our busy day on the boat the day before) but that didn't stop L. from splashing around in the water and directing me to take more 'jumping' photos of her. G. wasn't so keen on getting her clothes wet so she just put her feet in and then ran away from her jumping sister when she got too close.

From the beach we could see the tower on Jewell Island and are now trying to figure out how to get back to Jewell for a camping visit before the summer is over.

We're thinking about kayaking but first we have to learn how to do that ...