July 2-12, 2024

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The first stop was in Henniker, NH for some vacation time with family. Henniker has a covered bridge, built 1972, and a stone arch bridge, called the Edna Dean Proctor Bridge, which crosses the Contoocook River.

In the town of Contoocook there appears to be a structure of a mill or water treatment plant on the river. I liked the reflections on the water.

Near Hillsborough, there was a nice waterfall under a stone arch bridge.

The Bement Covered bridge on Center road over the Warner River in Bradford, NH was built in 1854 and upgraded and restored in 2020-21.

Finally an evening at the pond near Henniker produced a wonderful sunset.

This section starts the Maine portion of the trip. The family traveled to Portland Maine to meet with my granddaughter going to the Maine College of Art. We first went to the Portland Head Light and I took in all of the views.

We took the ferry out to Peaks Island to a restaurant where we had a full lobster dinner. When I cracked open the back I was sprayed with the juices. For the rest of the trip I had variations on other lobster dinners. The sky gave some great color and I was happy to be there with the family. That’s yours truly with the hat.

The next day the rest of the family departed south for more lacrosse tournaments and I rented a car and traveled north up the coast by myself. The first town was Boothbay Harbor and I made a stop at the Railway and Antique Auto Museum on the way into town.

South of Booth Bay Harbor is the Hendricks Head Lighthouse  but the road is blocked so you can only get a view from a nearby beach.

Then it was back to Boothbay Harbor for various harbor views and sunset which wasn’t that great. The harbor had a walkway across the harbor which was pretty nice with a private house right in the middle of it.

The next morning I got up a 4 AM to catch the sunrise at Pemaquid Lighthouse, the most famous one on the Maine coast. But the weatherman did not cooperate and I was the only photographer there to be disappointed with the complete cloud cover. But can you see a couple of streaks of light? I timed the photos so the light would be on.

The rest of the morning was foggy and a little drizzle of rain. On the way back up the peninsula from Pemaquid, the first stop was Tennents Harbor.

The Owls Head Light house near Rockland, ME was shrouded in fog and accessed from a steep stairway.

The next photos, still in fog, are from the Owls Head harbor. The lobster boat in the top images is unloading it’s catch of lobsters. I am showing a closeup of the lobster traps with the colorful buoy that marks the trap and identifies the owner. The trap is constructed so that the lobster crawls in through a constricted mesh opening to go after some well “marinated” fish bait. But after it goes through the opening it cannot get back out. There are strict rules and measurements of size for the lobster and whether it is a female carrying eggs to consider, before it can be classified as a “keeper”, and the others are thrown back in the water to live another day.

Since the weather was so bad, I decided to go to the Owls Head Transportation Museum which had a variety of unique restored vehicles. There were several of the early racing cars.

Stay tuned for more parts of the trip.