Buckā€™s Harbor is a charming little harbor that just screams quintessential Maine. We went on the recommendation of Lawrence and Viviane and of course were not disappointed. Thereā€™s room for anchoring if you donā€™t mind sharing space with visiting schooners, but we decided to splurge (read $37) on a mooring for the amenities. Buckā€™s Harbor Marina is a small family run marina that is worth the money. Wifi reaches out to the mooring field (falsehood in most other places), good cheap laundry, and showers. Outdoor dockside showers. Fabulous.

squeaky clean

Entrance to Buck’s Restaurant

 

After cleaning up a bit and looking respectable again, we walked up the road to the single restaurant in town to belatedly celebrate my birthday over dinner. Stuffed with pork chops and swordfish, we stumbled back down the hill and decided to stay another day. We figured the forecast was for rain anyway on Saturday, so weā€™d hang out another day waiting for the weather to clear and more importantly for the weekend boat traffic to head home and make room in anchorages for us.

 

Saturday morning was misting as promised, so we slept in and I made banana pecan pancakes with smoked maple syrup (recipe here).Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā  We spentĀ the day lounging on board, updating the blog (how often can you get wifi actually out to the boat in a mooring field????), and doing other projects.

 

House with tram to water

The rain eventually passed so we took a tour of the harbor by dinghy, inspectingĀ closely some of the prettier boats.Ā  There was one house that we passed perched high in the hills and were openly speculating how they got down to their dock when we suddenly saw a tram built into the hill that would haul gear andĀ people up and down a pretty steep incline to the water and back – amazing.

Buck’s Harbor resident with teak galore

 

picking out dinner

After that we headed back to the dock to pick up dinner.Ā  The marina has a stash of live lobster and the market up the road had potatoes, butter, lemonĀ and corn so we opted for an al fresco lobster boil on board.Ā  Soft shell lobsters are still in season and I got to pick my own!

lobstah

 

 

 

 

 

 

We woke up Sunday to fog that cleared pretty quickly revealing a schooner that had come in and dropped anchor not far from us – a fun new neighbor on the water.

Buck’s Harbor complete with schooner