New Harbor

      Today Durelle and Cindy took a drive down to New Harbor for a sentimental visit. I stayed here with the pup, but Cindy took some great pictures so I decided to share them in my blog. One of the features there is the Rachel Carson salt pond. It was there long before she wrote Silent Spring or before there was a salt pond named after her. A salt pond is formed by a barrier of a ring of rocks, earth and kelp that lies between high tide and low tide. When the tide comes in, much of it is captured by the barrier and stays there as the tide goes out. It's a wonderful place to observe all sorts of sea life. It also warms up in the sun so that it is the warmest ocean water in Maine. In the 80's I used it like my own personal hot tub after a day of clearing logs and brush from Gene and Ruth Gardner's cabin view.

     The Gardner cabin, aka "the Landry cottage" is just uphill from the salt pond. As a result, we have many pleasant memories of the area. We have been visiting there since 1978.
     As I have posted many times before, New Harbor is a working lobsterman's harbor with few pleasure boats.

     Another icon on route 1 is Moody's diner. Although their menu is not very imaginative, their pies are still special. So, they stopped.

     The landmark, of course, is Pemaquid Point and its lighthouse. 

     Cindy also captured the bed of petunias between the two halves of the parking lot at Shaws.