August 28, 2013  Slipway Restaurant and Megunticook Golf Club

We started the morning with a walk out the sea wall at Rockland to the Lighthouse.  That worked up an appetite so we drove to Slipway in Thomaston, the best seafood restaurant I have eaten at in years.  It is built next to Thomaston’s boat slip and features a deck protruding over the water or in the case of low tide today the slip at Thomaston, Maine on which there are also long picnic tables for dining plus three large indoor rooms and a bar.  The kitchen puts out a tremendous amount of food.  We started with six fresh Maine oysters on the half shell.  Then we had a cup of lobster bisque that was flavored with sherry, a tomato, puree and cream with a crouton with fresh lobster meat on it.   Then we had a daily special of four fresh grilled a Point Clyde Scallops with a bacon and Dijon mustard wilted spinach salad.  Then Willy had a fish and chips made with strips of fresh Haddock and Suzette had the Oyster basket with French fries, coleslaw and beautifully fresh fried Maine Oysters.  Everything was amazingly fresh.  I have never had several of the tastes.  I had a Nor’ester Apple cider that was made with amazingly fresh apple cider.  I have never had such a toothsome any yet charbroiled fresh scallop as the Point Clyde scallops as I had today.   The haddock in the fish and chips was amazingly fresh that it fell into pieces in your mouth or hand or whatever touched it first.  How can one describe such freshness?

  

After lunch we drove to Rockland want visited the Farnsworth Museum.  My favorite picture was the luminous Fitz Henry Lane seascape of Camden harbor back lit with a foggy sun.  Then we stopped at the Market Basket and shared a whoopie pie and each had a cup of tea and then up to the top of Mount Battie to overlook Camden Harbor.

Finally we went home to rest and get ready for dinner.

At around 6:00 Cissie picked us up and drove us to the Megunticook Golf Club, where they are members, for dinner.   We met lots of lovely people and enjoyed the old wooden clubhouse built in 1899.  The party was on the veranda overlooking the golf course and the ocean.   The reason for the party was to award prizes for the golf and tennis competitions held that day.  We were pleasantly surprised when it was announced that Cissie and Rick had won the mixed doubles 1^st place for lowest gross score with another couple.   So while we were visiting Portland and Mount Barrie they were golfing.  The club served a catered dinner of turkey and dressing, gravy, cranberry sauce and fried butternut squash and pumpkin pie.   Each person brought the liquor of their choice and the Club provided a bartender and the mixers.

After dinner Rick took me home by way of a boutique hotel named Natalie’s where I had a cognac and Grand Gala orange liquor and Rick had a couple of Johnnie Walker scotches.   We talked at home until 11:00 when I went to bed and Rick dictated his notes for that day.

Bon Appétit