This is the closest we’ve been to the States in a while. There’s a ferry that will take you from Yarmouth, NS to Portland, Maine in 5 ½ hours.
Since this was only about 2 hours from our last stop, we arrived early enough to drive out to town and sight-see for a bit, then have dinner at a local place – The Family Dinner Restaurant. No pictures of the food, but Blaine had really good lasagna and I ordered a local Arcadian dish called Rapture Pie. Like our waitress, I’m hard pressed to explain it. If you look up a recipe, it’s potatoes, chicken and broth and a couple of seasonings. You’ll also see pictures of this cake-looking wedge. Mine was not like that. The waitress said people make it three different ways – runny, thin and thick. This place splits the middle and makes thin. Anyway, it’s consistency was a bit like a runny oatmeal – a gelatinous goop. The potatoes were cooked down in the broth and seasonings and chicken added. Then, when I ordered it, they slopped some on the griddle and fry it like hashbrowns, flip it (I have no idea how!) and brown the other side. It tasted really good once I got used to the texture, but $10 good? I would have happily paid $6. But I’m glad I tried it. I love trying new things!
So before dinner, was the Cape Forchu Lighthouse.
It’s been built and rebuilt several times. Lots of history in the little museum they have in the building that’s being remodeled. Including a fog horn button where this light was, which of course Blaine pushed. That was fun to listen to!
The former Keeper’s Tool Room
And there’s a short interpretive trail. Did you realize all this info about seaweed? There’s certainly been plenty of it growing around here.
Do you know what this is?
Rose hips – like you read on Vitamin C labels. I never knew what that was before.
Here’s what WebMD says about them:
Rose hips are the round portion of the rose flower just below the petals. Rose hips contain the seeds of the rose plant. Dried rose hips and the seeds are used together to make medicine.
Fresh rose hips contain a lot of vitamin C, so they share many uses with vitamin C including preventing and treating colds, flu, and vitamin C deficiencies. However, much of the vitamin C in rose hips is destroyed during drying and processing and also declines rapidly during storage. Because of this, many rose hip-derived “natural” vitamin C products have actually been fortified with lab-made vitamin C, but their labels may not always say so.
Rose hips are also used for stomach disorders including stomach spasms, stomach acid deficiency, preventing stomach irritation and ulcers, and as a “stomach tonic” for intestinal diseases. They are also used for diarrhea, constipation, gallstones, gallbladder ailments, lower urinary tract and kidney disorders, fluid retention (dropsy or edema), gout, back and leg pain (sciatica), diabetes, high cholesterol, weight loss, high blood pressure, chest ailments, fever, increasing immune function during exhaustion, increasing blood flow in the limbs, increasing urine flow and quenching thirst. ~ copied from WebMD
If you’re really into this kind of thing, check out the website – thespruce.com
We left the lighthouse and drove through town. Here’s some interesting buildings we discovered. At least, we thought they were interesting. : )
Then we checked out some of the wharfs/marinas/harbors? I tried to figure out what the difference was, but it was too confusing for me. : )
These are lobster pots
Take a close look at these next two pictures. It’s low tide. The boats are all tethered to a ‘floating dock’ that rises and falls with the 15′ tide. There are also two sets of steps to use depending on the level of the water. You can see the tide line at the far end.
Lesson learned: Head-butting a 40’ motorhome is never a good idea.
I was helping Blaine take our bikes off the Jeep and put them under the coach. OUCH!! You know when something hurts so much, the tears leak out of your eyes? That was me. I put frozen peas on it right away, but believe it or not, no bump or bruise!