O is for Ocean Point

In our last few posts, we've been showing you beautiful Nova Scotia, Canada. But for O we'll drop back down into Maine and show you one of Melissa's favorite places on the planet: Ocean Point, in East Boothbay, Maine. Melissa and her family began vacationing in Boothbay when she was a little girl. It's a place that her whole family fell in love with and returns to year after year. We even lived there full-time for about seven years, in an old Victorian home built by a sailmaker and lived in by the Adams family - builders of four and five-masted schooners.

Ocean Point is an outcropping of rocks at the very tip of a peninsula that is formed by Linekin Bay and the Damariscotta River. On Sunday mornings, we'd go to the East Boothbay General Store for sticky buns and coffee, take them up the point, park our beach chairs and sit for pretty much as long as our rear-ends could take it. From the point, you can see three lighthouses: Ram Island, Cuckholds and Burnt Island Light. Over the years, Dick painted many, many paintings of those lighthouses.

Melissa loves Ocean Point so much that she wrote a poem about it, and the poem was recently published in the Literary Bohemian. You can read it HERE.

While traveling in the RV, we returned to the area for a week at a campground in nearby Damariscotte. These pictures are from that vistit. Enjoy!

First stop - the East Boothbay General Store for coffee and treats:

Now up to Ocean Point to spend the day:

OUR RESERVED SPOT :):

WATCHING THE LOBSTERMEN HAUL TRAPS

RAM ISLAND LIGHT IN THE DISTANCE

THAT'S MELISSA, IN HER HAPPY PLACE