State Parks are amazing. We need more of them, more support for them and more time for everyone to take advantage of them. Wow. Cobscook State Park in Maine is such a little gem. Of course, you need to be hardy to biting insects, like flies, etc. However, it’s an extremely special place. The tidal shift is gigantic, and the landscape changes dramatically over the course of the day, alternating from a simmable, boatable bay to a massive, sticky, mudflat. The tide changes so quickly, in fact, that you can watch the water level change over just one minute!
I love the mornings where the water and the sky are one. I paddled out into this blank white nothingness. It was silent, still, perfection.
Liam cooks pancakes.
Pancakes.
The camp stove is a truly marvelous invention.
It rained a lot the first night.
We hiked a bit on the Cutler Trail. Here is Reid on that hike, on a shockingly steep pennisular point with scary drops on either side. Naturally, we had lunch here.On the same Cutler Trail hike, we visited a stunning rounded-rock beach and made endless cairns and skipped a great many perfect stones.Another view from the Cutler Trail.But just being on Cobscook is something special all by itself. When the tide is out, you have to walk in the mud!And fire. There’s nothing like fire.We allowed ourselves to just hang out. Read the NY Times. Read books. Mess around on the water. Wow. I want to do this forever.Katie demostrates the feeling, in a nutshell. Just honored to be here!
We missed the recent local rallies and protests in support of Black Lives Matter, and George Floyd in the last couple of weeks, so when we heard that Trump was coming to Maine for a photo op with a company that makes swabs used in COVID-19 testing, and there was a protest, we thought we should do it!
Some very clever signs.
For example.
Many very clever signs, actually.
Some Bread-and-Puppet-esque pieces too.
Over 1000 gathered near the airport for the Trump protest / Black Lives Matter rally. Keep in mind that ME is among the whitest state in the Union. It was very heartening to see this show of solidarity.
After the speaches and chants, the crowd took over the round-about near the airport, and some lay down in front of traffic. The police were engaged, but everything was civil and peaceful. So proud of these young activists.
Tea and Kate 