We are in the midst of a wonderful summer here, full of the kind of days that make you forget your responsibilities, make you forget where you left your cell phone, and go off to play with friends on the water.
Melanie and Marie from New Orleans were here for a week and we went up to the Birches at Moosehead Lake with them. Rented a little runabout boat there and went around to see the face of Mt. Kineo, pulled up at Hardscrabble Point for a breakfast snack, and later tied up at the restaurant for lunch.
Cruised the other side by Simoneaux's camps where we stayed several years ago when we went to Kokadjo where the pavement ends and drove 20 miles on a bad dirt road into the camps and climbed to the top of Kineo, and up the fire tower and later canoed up to the face and looked straight up. Facts:
The largest lake east of the Mississippi, Moosehead is some 40 miles long and up to twenty miles wide, with 350 miles of shoreline. At its deepest point, the spot where the flinty blue-green face of Mount Kineo plunges precipitously to the water, the lake is 250 feet deep.
I've been thinking about getting a motor boat, but it's such a virtual boat I want that I can afford to look for it a long time. It's a Nancy Drew roadster of a boat with a steering wheel and windshield, and the boat, motor and trailer all together can't cost more than $1000.
Ingrid (my sister) and Robert came up from Baton Rouge and played here before going off to Quebec.
Both sets of visitors got to see our life here, shows at the theater, market day on Saturday morning.
Ingrid and Robert participated in the annual Loon Count and breakfast which Melissa has coordinated the last few years. Two adults, two chicks, two nests counted by 26 people in 19 human-powered boats.
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