Leaving Cundy's Harbor, sort of, and a surprise gift

Yesterday we decided to leave Cundy's Harbor to make the short run over to The Basin, a wonderful harbor that's nearly landlocked just across from Cundy's Harbor.  As we headed out of the mooring area in Cundy's for the 1 mile run, a lobster boat named "Life After" hailed us and came up along side Pandora.  At first, I thought that they were going to tell me that I was at risk of tangling with some newly set traps but their mission was very different.

The captain asked if we were "Barbara and Steve's friends", the folks that we had been visiting for the last few days.  When I said "yes", he retorted that "I have some lobsters for you".   My only reaction to this was a simple "what?", thinking that I had miss-heard him.   He retorted with an answer of simply, "I want to give you some lobsters.  Do you have a bucket?".    No more explanation needed for me so I dived into the locker to retrieve a bucket that was buried deeper than I realized.  However before I was able to find mine, they were ready with their own bucket and 4 lobsters which they handed over to us before roaring off to tend their traps.  I yelled an uncertain "thanks" to their stern followed by "let me give you your bucket back" but they simply said, "keep it" and they were gone.

"What was that all about", Brenda and I wondered aloud as they roared off and were gone.

Later that evening Steve and Barbara came over in their runabout to visit for a drink and the first words out of her mouth were "did you enjoy your lobsters?".  It seems that she had told her lobstering friend Paul about us and he had agreed to make a gift of lobsters to us, someone whom he had never even met.

I guess to that lobsterman any friend of Barbara and Steve is his friend too.  A small gift perhaps but one that amazed us since we hail from the land of "in God we trust, all others pay cash".

Maine is indeed a great place to visit.

As I write this in The Basin the sun has just peaked up over the hills and again, what a view or should I say, view"s".

Even the big boys enjoy visiting this place if only with the "proper help".   This boat is called "Grumpy".  I wonder if he is?  I have seen Grumpy in prior years.  Funny name for a boat.

Even a dock looks lovely in the early hours.

While not our "lobster boat" from yesterday, one of the locals tending his traps.

Sometimes you feel like you can walk across the trap buoys there are so many of them.

A lovely little Friendship Sloop, the sort that used to be used for lobstering in this part of Maine years ago, reflected on millpond still waters.

Off to Bath today after work and with the tide for a two or three day visit to the Museum.  Great weather for the next few days.   Time to get to work so signing off now.   Weekend in a few days. Perhaps I will make it a long one.   Hmmm....