the happy couple just after their anniversary!

Tanqueray at sunset

I have to confess we sailed right by Castine and never stopped, instead heading for Smith Cove. Once I had texted Viviane that we were back in Maine, she sent texts indicating where they were heading &  where we could meet up and we weren’t going to pass up the chance since she was heading home soon from vacation. Smith Cove is south of Castine – a well protected but quite large anchorage. Once we dropped anchor and got settled, we dinghied over and the cocktails commenced. We had lots of stories from our Midwest roadtrip and they had lots of recommendations of new Maine harbors to visit and homes they had looked at. The evening went much too fast. We headed back to the boat for dinner (complete with blueberry muffins for dessert) and a fabulous moon rise.

visiting Tanqueray by sailing dinghy

The next morning we all agreed to meet to hike the Holbrook State Park, which made up much of the land creating the harbor where we were anchored. If we hadn’t talked enough the night before we had a couple of hours of hiking along the coast to continue to visit. Ironically, even though we each had plans to head that day to other harbors, once we got back to our boats we decided to stay put another day. Trip took the dinghy out for a long sail, and I decided to try a new recipe for sourdough carmelized shallot focaccia. And since all four of us were still in the same place of course we had to have another cocktail hour……….