Ogunquit, Maine

 On Saturday, October 10th, we arrived in Ogunquit, Maine. We stayed at the Anchorage By the Sea resort.  Maine was beautiful, but it was cold. I had to wear a jacket over my sweater even during the day.

New England goes all out for Halloween, and Maine was no exception. Here are some of the decorations at the resort. 

Our first attraction took us to Perkins Cove. We boarded a lobster boat for a demonstration of lobster catching. I used to do this a long time ago, both in San Diego and in St. Kitts. 

They only got a couple of lobsters that were of legal size to collect. 

There was a seagull named Johnathan who followed the boat and was only too happy to eat the leftover lobster bait for the fisherman. 

One of the lobsters had a sculpin caught in his claws, so the fisherman released the sculpin back into the sea.

This is a legally sized lobster.

Then we went to Portland, Maine's largest city. We had some time to walk around and eat and shop.

We crossed the bridge to South Portland. 

Then we went to the Plotland Head Light, a lighthouse in Fort Williams. It was chilly and sunny. 

The whole area is known as Cape Elizabeth. It is very picturesque.

After that, we had a bus tour of the city, conducted by a local resident. It was very interesting.

Then we went back to Ogunquit to the hotel. They have a beach walk path, so I took that and saw these beautiful seascapes. 

This tree is 101 years old.

On Sunday, October 11th, we went back to Boston It is an hour and thirty minutes from Ogunquit. 

This is the pub that was heavily featured on Court TV. An Irish firefighter raped an American girl that he met at this pub. He was convicted.

This lamp marks the spot where Benjamin Franklin conducted his kite experiment.

This building is a replica of the Flatiron building in NYC. 

We stopped at a really old, cool cemetery. It was next to the Trinity Church. it is called Copp's Hill Burial Ground.

 

A lot of the headstones had this skeleton engraving. I thought it was weird.

This building was designed by the famous architect IM Pei, who designed the Louvre. Trinity church reflects perfectly in this building.

This building houses the experimental labs at MIT University. They are conducting germ warfare in there. 

There was a hen turkey walking down the street in Cambridge, where Harvard University is located.

I liked this mural.

This building is part of Boston University. It looks like a game of Jenga.

This is a tribute to the all-star players of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. It is outside Fenway Park.

These four columns were erected as a tribute to the four people killed by the evil brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon in 2013.

Here is Trinity Church, where many homeless go for shelter and services.

More cruising around Boston, near the Boston Common park. This tree that was struck by lightning is across from the Massachusetts State House.

                                                 

Here is Faneuil Hall. This bronze is outside. 

This is a tribute to the people who died in the potato famine in Ireland in 1845-1852.

This is Paul Revere's childhood home.

This house is where Rose Kennedy grew up.

Here's good old Paul Revere.

This is the "One if by Land, Two if by Sea" light. It is the steeple at Old North Church.

Paul Revere also built the Newton 

City Hall.

Prior to gong to Logan International Airport, we stopped at Quincy Market so that everyone could get a snack for the plane. However, in an unusual move, American Airlines fed us both ways!

This is the Ben and Jerry's at Quincy Market.

I'm glad to be back home. It was a great tour and I will definitely use this company again.