Posted on 06/18/2018 1:49:16 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU
Miss Portland Diner.
Camden is a must visit. My wife’s favorite .
Plan a day in Bath. Drive by the huge Bath Iron Works, see the Maine Maritime Museum, go to the Kennebeck Tavern, take a cutter out of the Museum down Kennebec River to the outlet and explore Georgetown if you have the time.
If you are in the Annapolis Bay area try the Digby Inn. Digby NS is famous for giant sweet scallops.
Peggy’s Cove south of Halifax is perhaps the most photogenic Canadian light house in existence. Grand Pre, NS has a great Acadian History Museum.
My wife’s family heritage is part Acadian and we did a four week history tour of the Maritimes when I retired a couple years ago.
“...If you are in the Annapolis Bay area try the Digby Inn. Digby NS is famous for giant sweet scallops....”
We’ll be coming out of Yarmouth on Rte. 101 heading over to Halifax, and I believe Digby is just off that road. I didn’t see a Digby Inn on the map. Coastal Inn, maybe? Habourview Inn?
I sm also acadian and have toured NB and NS several times
Grab a pizza at Flatbreads on the harbor in the Old port. For clams, Kens Place in Scarborough is the call.
End of August is about the best time to visit Old Orchard Beach. Water temperature usually reaches 50 degrees by that time!
Amatos deli. They are in several towns on the coast of Maine. Personally, I think thier Italians sandwiches are expensive.
I live in Portland. There are lots of good restaurants both in Portland and Old Orchard Beach. Just pick what feels right. You will probably find me at Pats Pizza at 30 Market Street when the Red Sox are playing.
Perkins Cove in Ogunquit is essential for lobster (The Lobster Shack).
Street & Co. in Portland for seafood if you can get a reservation (often booked 2-3 months out), Fore Street if you can’t.
Digby Inn is up the Fundy coast at Digby looking out into the Annapolis Bay. Do a Search for the Admiral Digby Inn Restaurant and Cottages. It is nothing fancy but I live in Arizona and if I go back in a year or two, I will stay there again. Food and accommodations are a great value.
“...Search for the Admiral Digby Inn Restaurant and Cottages....”
Found it. Looks like it’s just a little south of the St. John/Digby Ferry terminal...thanks!!
Portland Head Light, outside the city of Portland.
Kennebunkport: One of the most charming towns on the southern Maine coast. There are plenty of great restaurants, hotels, historic inns and shops. It's pretty busy during the summer.
Do *not* miss driving / stopping by The Bush compound on Walker's Point . Keep driving along Ocean Avenue for great ocean views and jaw-dropping seaside mansions.
The Colony Hotel: A beautiful, historic grand hotel built in 1914. You don't have to stay here to stroll the beautiful grounds, and poke around the first floor of the hotel. You can eat in the Marine Room downstairs, by the pool. The Colony serves an awesome breakfast every morning in the Grand Dining Room. There is also a Friday Night Mariners Buffet.
Other great Kennebunkport restaurants: The Clam Shack, Mabel's Lobster Claw, Pedro's Mexican Restaurant, Old Vines Wine Bar, Alisson's Restaurant & Pub, Hurricane Restaurant, The Pilot House, Ocean Cape Arundel Inn (expensive), Arundel Wharf Restaurant and The Spirit of Massachusetts Restaurant (floating restaurant on a sailboat).
Cape Porpoise: The Ramp Bar & Grill (excellent food! Don't be deceived by its looks), Pier 77 Restaurant, Nunan's Lobster Hut.
York Beach: The Goldenrod Restaurant on Short Sands Beach (since 1896) - fun especially for families.
Good brewpubs in the area: Gritty's in Portland, Federal Jack's Restaurant and Brewpub in Kennebunkport, Sea Dog Brewing Company, Topsham.
If you enjoy baseball, you can visit Hadlock Field in Portland, home of the AA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox: The Portland Sea Dogs. I think there's a baseball team and field in Old Orchard Beach as well.
Beware: There's a 'Little Somalia' a few blocks from Hadlock Field. We've been going to Portland for decades - so far we've had no trouble.
Other favorite spots of ours along coastal Maine:
Ogunquit / Perkins Cove / Marginal Way (can be very crowded and touristy in summer). The historic Ogunquit Playhouse is a great place to see a "summer stock" play or musical.
Harpswell / Orr's Island / Bailey Island (SE of Topsham and Brunswick). Usually quiet... rustic and restful.
Boothbay Harbor
Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert Island -- We love the beautiful, rustic Cranberry Isles - accessible by boats that also deliver U.S. Mail to island residents.
Have fun...
I like Camden well enough but prefer Tenant’s Harbor which is still a little working class, quiet and really scenic. I enjoy talking to lobstermen. Rockland, Rockport and Camden are kind of phony-magnets and very small pondish for this New Yorker. I also like the interior with its small country stores and small, rural homes that are still - sometimes - lit by candlelight.
Maine is changing drastically. Even on St. George Peninsula, the rich are buying up swathes of land and building McMansions which is ruining the Wyeth landscape.
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