Photos of Maine

Here are some photos from our last trip to Maine. Instead of spending our entire time in Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, we stayed about an hour south in Belfast and spent our time going various places and taking in sites we had not had time for in the past. Of course... in case you're wondering we did indeed have lobster for every single dinner.


Here is a shot of the view from our hotel balcony in Belfast, Maine.


This is a photo of the new Penobscot Narrows Bridge. Notice the windows in the peak of the tower. That is an observatory that we (and by we I mean Matt... someone else was glued to the ground below) went up in to get a view of the Penobscot Narrows River valley. The old bridge is still there right beside the new one... it is the one that we went across on the motorcycle on our first trip to Maine that Julie about had a heart attack on as we could feel it swaying back and forth as we crossed it. They will eventually take the old bridge down but they have not had the budget to do so yet.


This is a photo of Fort Knox... no, not the one where the government keeps its gold... this Fort Knox was established in 1844 to protect the Penobscot River valley against a possible future British naval incursion.


Here is a shot taken within the walls of Fort Knox. It is one of the best preserved fortifications on the New England seacoast.


Here is a photo of Fort Knox taken across the river in the town of Bucksport, Maine. You can see the Penobscot Narrows Bridge in the background.


Here is a photo of some Navy ship sitting in the bay in Camden, Maine. We thought it was a destroyer at first until we saw the cranes on the deck.


Here is a shot of some of the homes in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. It was a beautiful little town.


Here is another photo of Boothbay Harbor.


I've always been infatuated with Bath, Maine ever since we went to the christening of the USS Oscar Austin when Lauren's husband Ray was its Weapons Officer. Here is a shot of Bath Iron Works showing some of the new navy destroyers being built.