A beautiful morning greets us as we leave the Pentagoet and enter our chariot for the excursion of the day. Our destination is Blue Hill about a hour or so drive south of Castine. The town of Blue Hill in my opinion is not as pretty as Castine. However, the subsequent drive around Blue Hill Bay into the small towns of Brooklin, Sargentville and Segwick is gorgeous. Beautiful vistas overlooking the bay and wonderful chances to take some photographs. I am getting ahead of myself.
We stopped in Blue Hill, park the car and walked down Main Street. After a brief walk, we realized that our walk was going through the commercial part of town so we headed back. Sarah wanted to pick up some bath salts and products because we have an old fashioned tub in our room. It was not long before we came upon such a store, a place that sold a little bit of everything for I am sure mostly tourists. We managed to get her bath products, a bunch of other stuff like a small journal, a little silk zippered change pouch that I will use for small gadget items like headphones, camera connection. Sarah picked up a light cotton turtleneck for the cool mornings and evenings. I got a wonderful little dance skirt for Alisa that Sarah picked out and told me she will love it.
It is funny the last sentence I kept struggling to not call the zippered pouch a purse. I guess sometimes I am not as liberal as I believe myself to be in reality. Just a fun observation.
After our store trip, we wanted to get some coffee and Sarah wanted something to eat. We walked around the corner and found C-Shells Coffee billed as a nautical coffee and pastry shop on the harbor. It was that a more. Sarah had a wonderful tasting crabmeat and bacon wrap and I had a cafe machiatto. We met Michele the owner and chef who is a friendly, gregarious woman who loves to travel and moved backup to Blue Hill to open this shop. She haves us directions to a drive around the bay where you see the photos below and past little towns. There was a retired English Literature teacher we chatted up and I asked who he liked better Fitzgerald or Hemingway. He said Fitzgerald. I happen to agree. The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books of all time.
After our drive, we made it back to the Inn about 3 pm. We usually drive and walkabout for five hours or so then retire back to the Inn for some relaxation on the Porch or in The Passport Pub.
A theater in Ellsworth we spotted and where we stopped to have lunch.
Across the street from our lunch spot.
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