As we discovered yesterday, coastal Maine is very busy, especially on a weekend. So today we were up at 5.30am, and away by 6.30am to go exploring before all the masses got out on the roads.

First stop, Owls head to see a lighthouse. But when we got there, we couldn’t find the lighthouse. But this is Maine, there are lighthouses everywhere.

So we drove further on down the coast to another one. But when we got there it was a private road. Strike two for lighthouses. So we asked a couple of guys and they said there was one back where we came from.

So backtrack we did. It was about a mile walk on a granite jetty to see the lighthouse at the end. It was a very quaint lighthouse, basically just a light on top of a house. But it was a nice walk. It was 9.30am by this time and getting hot already.

I’d heard things about A lobster shack called Reds Eats and it’s supposed to be the best lobster rolls in the world. But I’ve also heard of people queuing for two hours to eat there. Crazy I know!

We stopped there just before opening time and a small queue had already formed. I thought it wouldn’t take long, but an hour later I’m still standing there, in the hot sun, baking like a lobster. They did hand our umbrellas and some fried prawns while we waited.

Anyway, I’m not sure why it took so long, but we only ordered one lobster roll to share. At $34, that was all we were willing to pay.

The roll was packed with lobster, easily $70 worth back home. It was juicy and tender, but lacked a little flavour. I would have expected the salty sweet taste like crayfish, but it didn’t really taste like anything.

But… the sauce they served with it was delicious. It was a butter sauce and tasted like butter scotch. We just dipped the lobster in and it was delicious. But they got the lobster to bread ratio way off. You could not pick it up and eat it like a roll as the roll had gone all soggy. They could easily have make three rolls from that amount of lobster.

Was it worth $34? I think so. Was it worth a 1 hour wait? NO!

After that we were so hot and bothered and sick of all the peoples that we got the heck out of there.

I found us a free place to camp in a nice little town called freeport. They had free camping in a carpark for RVs and it was so much nicer than the cramped camp from the previous night.