The Travels of Jerry, Kathy & KC

 

September 2, 2007 - Phippsburg, ME - Moosehead Lake Well , it has been a week since we left on our trip the the Moosehead Lake Region .   I am just now posting because we didn't have much of an internet connection up there and we have had trouble ever since we got back here on Thursday .   It is working well now so I can tell you about Moosehead Lake . Moosehead Lake is the largest fresh water lake totally contained in one state east of the Mississippi River .   It is 65 , 000 acres and it is BEAUTIFUL .   The entire region is very pretty although somewhat remote .   We stayed in a nice campground in Greenville which is the largest city on the lake .   The think that struck us most was the quiet .   Here at Meadowbrook , there is always a low level hum of activity but not up there .   It was very cool and we could even sleep with the windows open at night with being awakened early the next morning by some sort of noise .   As a matter of fact , it was so cool we actually had to turn on the furnace . We did some driving around the area the first couple of days .   The last two days we went out on the lake on two different cruises .   The first was a " Moose cruise " and every cruise before this one for about the past two weeks had seen a moose but not us .   I told Jerry I thought he was a jinx because we haven't seen any whales up here on two different cruises and now NO MOOSE! But it was a lovely ride out on the lake in the late afternoon and we really enjoyed it . The major feature of the lake is Mt . Kineo .   It is a 700 ft " mountain " made almost entirely of flint rock .   It sits on a peninsula out in the lake and the front side is rather unremarkable .   When you go around the end of the peninsula to the back side you can't help but be impressed .   It a cliff face jutting straight up out of the water .   It is really beautiful . The last day we went out on the Katahdin which is a 93 year old steamboat .   She is beautiful and we spent 5 hours out on the lake on her .   We went back out to Mt . Kineo and got much close to the shoreline than the day before .   It is really amazing . We are sure we will go back to this region again next year when we are here .   It has got to be one of my favorite areas in Maine . Comments