21 July 2019

There is supposed to be rain today, but the morning begins with bright sunshine. O and I prepare our first car camping breakfast. It is nice to be sitting at a picnic table beneath pine trees cooking and eating. Breakfast is an “upside down cake,” but since we are not baking fruit with it, I guess it’s just a cake. We have a quart of fresh local strawberries from Sussex that we bought at the supermarket. They are delicious! I hope they still have some tomorrow when we pass through on the way back from Saint John.

After breakfast it’s time for some serious reorganizing inside Vincent who is looking quite jumbled at the moment. Just as O has almost completed his heroic reorganization the sky grows very dark and we hear approaching thunder. As the skies open we are ready to head over to Headquarters Campground where there are washing machines (and an occasional working dryer, as it turns out.) O does the laundry schlepping as I do not want my plaster cast dissolving in the downpour. We end up having to pack up wet laundry and find a second laundry station as the dryer in the first is defunct. 

Laundry finally done, we drive to the visitor center where wifi is available, but the signal is not very strong and I cannot connect. Finally, after a few people leave the crowded room I am able to connect and upload the story of our rescue day. Finally we pack up and drive to nearby Alma for dinner as it is still raining hard, and we do not have a tarp set up. The first restaurant we come to is the Tipsy Tail. I order fish tacos and O gets a Beyond Meat burger. Both are very good.

After dinner we head to the Molly Kool House for an evening of music and tales. While we await the opening of the doors at the replica of Molly Kool’s childhood home, we are treated to a brilliant double rainbow. (According to Wikipedia Molly Kool, in 1939, was the first woman to become a sea captain in North America after receiving her master mariner’s papers from the Merchant Marine Institution in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.)The kitchen party is geared towards children, but it is still fun and entertaining. The performers stay in character from a time period near the end of WWII. They gossip and tell stories about the “goings on” of the time. Of course they also work in some brief tales of Molly and have kids and adults from the audience put on costumes and participate in the story-telling. Two young local girls provide interludes of song and fiddle tunes. The usual young performers are off at a competition. Apparently they are doing quite well. After the performance we return to Wolfe Point for the night.