Wednesday, July 28. We left Machias reluctantly. The area had good restaurants and watching the river bed empty and then fill again from our room was interesting. On the way out we stopped at the Maine Sea Salt Company (http://www.maineseasalt.com/), a small business demonstrating New England ingenuity. Sea water is evaporated in 200 foot greenhouses without any of the mechanical help that the bigger companies use. Some of the salt is then smoked over a wood fire.
Salt house
Wood smoked flavored sea salt
Just outside of Jonesport a sign besides a simple gravel driveway advertises the Maine Central Model Railroad. Inside an outbuilding sits a 20 year labor of love for a retired couple who worked tirelessly fulltime to create handbuilt miniature replicas of Maine towns and scenery. It has 380 railroad cars travelling 3000' of track. The detail is amazing-even hidden interiors are revealed when the roofs of some buildings are removed.
Buz and Helen Beal's railroad has been featured on NBC News
Stephen King's House
Our last stop of the day was at the small Maine Coast Sardine Museum. This area use to be a center for sardine factories but this year the last U.S. factory closed. The museum was inudated by local, state, national, and international requests for information.
Scissors used by the women who cleaned the sardines. Apparently it was not unheard of for the workers to lose fingers in this process.
After watching lobstering activities all afternoon from our room at the Harbor House (http://www.harborhs.com/) we expected to have a great lobster meal in the evening. We were surprized to find that there was only one real restaurant in town called "Tall Barney's". Upon entering, it looked more like a cafe. I was disappointed in not finding any steamed lobster offered especially since Edie was considering trying them. I ordered the haddock with a baked potato and salad with bleu cheese only to find they don't offer baked potato or bleu cheese. Edie decided to get the lobster stew for $13 and a $5 salad. The stew turned out to be a few pieces of claw meat in a watery milk. She had been told that it would contain potato also but not a trace was found. She asked for a roll to go along with it but the best they could offer was oyster crackers. Edie now has taken the lead for the most disappointing meal on the trip.
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