Maine Trip Day 3

Today I went up the coast to Boothbay to go to the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden. It was about a two-hour drive from my brother’s condo, half the drive was on the Maine Turnpike and I-295 and the rest of the way was on secondary roads (Rt. 1 & Rt. 27). The roads went winding along the Maine shore and every one in awhile the road would cross an ocean inlet or a tidal river. On the way up, it was low tide, however, on the way back, it was just about high tide with the water was swirling under the bridges as the tide rushed in. The drive took me past the Bath Iron Works where they work on Navy ships and a few of them were tied up to the docks and the cranes they have at the shipyard were gigantic.

On the drive to the gardens, there was one traffic jam that lasted for about a mile and a half in each direction. Why was it backed up? It was because of a crosswalk. One or two cars would get by before someone crossed the street and traffic came to a halt as they crossed. They really should put in a crossing light to control the pedestrian traffic, instead of just random foot traffic that only allows one or two cars to pass at a time. [End of Rant]

The gardens were beautiful! I was so glad that I went. The garden is 248 acres and it has over a mile of ocean frontage (you can see the map here), the trails just wind through out the different gardens. Here are some of the photos that I took…








They would let me go beyond this point*
But they did have a garden just for us, wasn’t that sweet of them…
*They have a fairy village for the kids (see map).