So now I've got some more pictures to catch up...starting with Jimmy's visit to Bar Harbor. We made a fantastic dinner with mussels, clams, lobster and corn--all the good stuff. We started with this:
And wound up with this!
And it was delicious!
I'm not the biggest seafood fan, but I do enjoy a good lobster and some mussels every now and then. I also enjoy actually digging for the clams and gathering the mussels. It's so gratifying to be able to find your own dinner--not to mention it's free! It was a really gray afternoon when we headed out to Hadly Point and the tide was out particularly far-much farther than I've ever seen it. Clam digging was especially easy with more exposed beds, and Jimmy turned out to be a great clam digger, so we wound up with a lot of shellfish.
(notice the matching Michigan t-shirts!)
We also were lucky enough to see some dolphins and a seal swimming around just off shore. It was the first seal I've seen and I couldn't believe how close he was to the shore. We also found some gigantic whelks and a number of baby crabs. Needless to say, we saw a lot of sea creatures in a small amount of time.
It was great afternoon followed by a filling dinner that left us all a bit seafood-ed out. And if that wasn't enough, we went on a fishing trip the next day and came home with 4 more lobsters, about 6 crabs, and a bag full of pollock and mackerel. It was another great day-thanks in part to the seasick patches Jimmy brought for us. The majority of the boat wound up sick from the choppy seas, and we were just about the only ones still fishing at the end of the trip.
All in all, we had a great time with Jimmy! It's nice that so much of our families has been able to come visit. I'm always so excited to share this place with anyone and everyone that wants to come out!
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