Quite a Walk and a Little Drive

I had the great idea to take the stroller and walk the Estuary Trail this morning. Matey started out on the leash and he was happy to walk, which was a good thing, because this trail got very rooty, so even pushing the empty stroller was a chore.

We did find a few nice lookouts. The first afforded us a better look at the Five Islands, though you still couldn’t see them all.

Here we are further in and lower down, so you can see the commercial RV park at Sand Point more at eye level.

This is still further up the estuary. It was two hours before high tide so there was water up here.

That is not a functioning lighthouse, but it was picturesque.

After over a mile Matey seemed to be slowing so we put him in the stroller. Bud had to pull with the strap while I pushed and steered over the roots. At one point we crossed a little bridge down in a dip. Bud had to hold the stroller back while I carefully steered it down, then I was able to step down while Bud climbed up the other side. Then he pulled and I pushed up and over the other bank. I wanted a picture of that but the photo made it look almost flat. It wasn’t.

Matey began to look a bit stressed out from all the bouncing around. I don’t think standing with your feet braced is particularly restful. We let him out to walk on his own and I pulled the empty stroller while Bud pushed. The trail made a loop back to the beginning, or you could take a short branch up to the park road. We opted to take the exit and walk back the park road. As we neared the road I needed to put Matey back on the leash, so for the last bit of trail Matey was ahead, I followed with his leash in my left hand and the thick leash to the front of the stroller in my right. Bud followed pushing the stroller from behind. I wish someone had come by to take a picture of that!

After 1.8 miles of walking or being jostled, Matey was as glad to ride in the smooth stroller as we were to walk on the smooth road!

This afternoon we took a short ride down to Five Islands Lighthouse Park. We can see this lighthouse (not operational) from our campsite.

That’s the campground from the lighthouse.

Besides some nice views of the shoreline further west,

with its pretty, crumbling red cliffs,

I finally got to see all five islands.

Someone had painted and put up this nice sign identifying and giving a little information on each one. I liked that. The names are in the sky above the islands and hard to read, from the left there is Moose Island, Diamond Island, Long Island, Egg Island (it hardly shows in my photo) and Pinnacle Island, with Pinnacle Rock just to its right. Seeing the sign was worth the ride.