dug, sarah, and the elusive reverse waterfall..

a bit ago, our friends dug and sarah came up to maine to visit. they stay just outside of portland, a once or twice a year vacation for them, at a property her family owns. jessica and i were able to take a  rare day off together and meet the two of them in owl's head for a day of cycling, hamburgers and sightseeing!

one Owl's Head Light. two dugs.

we spent the day riding around owl's head, an spit of land just south of rockland on the midcoast, known for it's lovely beaches, lighthouse, and the owl's head general store, which serves the voted 'best hamburgers in maine'. i've only had a few burgers in maine thus far, but i'd have to agree on the quality of this one. we all ordered the '7 napkin burger', though they offered a few special burger options that day, including a breakfast burger(with fried egg and bacon) and a pb&j burger(?). 

one of the several beaches visited that day.

i was told about a few local sights to see while down there by man-about-town mike hartley, and to make a long series of misunderstandings short, i thought he said 'gig store and reverse waterfall', but we found the 'keag store and a submersi-bal' maybe? maybe not..

all yellow an' everything!

i found out later that 'keag' is the shortened version of weskeag, the name of a river that empties into the bay here, and 'keag' is pronounced 'gig', and there is indeed a reversible tidal waterfall mere yards from where we were standing, but it's only rippin' at highest and lowest tide. which we missed by a mile. moving on..

still a lovely day, and we finished it off with a walk out the rockland breakwater, and pizza and ice cream at the thorndike creamery! what more could you want!