Camping in Maine - Sept 2013

So we headed south out of Quebec to reach Baxter State Park on Saturday 9/7, driving 16 miles from the nearest town, Millinocket, to the park entrance, and then 8 miles on a dirt road to our camp area. The forest was fragrant - lots of pines and birch. We got our tent and picnic table awning up and decided to not bother cooking so we'd have time to take a short hike to a nearby pond - they say the moose often show up at dusk - no moose. It rained that night, but the new tent worked like a charm - nice and dry. Unfortunately the rain kept up all the next day. We hiked anyway in rain gear up to Chimney pond under the cirque of Mt Katahdin's Baxter Peak. Ir was cold and wet, with quite a bit of cloud cover blowing by the mountain, interspersed with clear blue skies - go figure. We were tired after that, so even though it went down into the 30's Sunday night, we slept warm and peacefully. The next day was clear and warmed up into the 70's. We went up a peak north of Katahdin and got a spectacular view of all of the various peaks. Tuesday we pulled up stakes and headed for Wiscasset, Maine along the coast to stay at the Snow Squall Inn B&B. It's a great place, centrally located and providing perfect access for gorging on lobster, fish chowders, and every other form of seafood imaginable. We've been slipping off the non-dairy diet a bit, but it's been worth it! The small towns are picturesque and the rugged coastline is pristine, Fog shrouded the shoreline until about noon today, but then temperatures went into the 80's - very pleasant.