Craig's blog

Today was great. We had a relatively relaxing start to the day with a home cooked meal of melon, eggs, bacon and hashbrowns. Then we took the relatively short drive to the harbor (~7 miles).  We did some souvenir shopping in the quaint town, had a good lunch with a great view of the harbor and then went to a kayak rental shop and rented 3 tandem kayaks.

We paired Patty and Katie, Kelli and Maddie, and Jessie and me. We paddled out for about an hour into the wind and arrived at our destination - Burnt island lighthouse. We spent about an hour on the island exploring and swimming and then headed back with the wind at our backs. I've always loved kayaking, and this was a great trip that the whole family could enjoy. It even got Jessie asking if we could get some kayaks of our own. :)

After the kayaking we all got some ice cream and then bought some food for dinner.

We came back to camp and cooked some lobsta and chowda along with green beans. The (hopefully) attached photo is of us enjoying our lobster.

We got the girls to do the dishes (I discovered last night that I could ask them to do them) and I'm sitting by the fire looking at the beautiful view of the water and trying to write my blog on my phone using an app I downloaded. We'll see how well it works...  We don't have wi-fi here and won't for the rest of the trip, so I thought I'd see what my phone could do.

Tomorrow we depart early for Acadia National Park. It's the only place we don't have reservations, so we're trying to get there early to get a spot.