Day 7.234: Royal River Park

We were all pretty exhausted after yesterday's excitements, so we decided that a big hiking or biking adventure was probably not what we needed. However, it seemed a pity to spend the whole day indoors, so we braved the heat and humidity for a small outing to Royal River Park in Yarmouth.

It's a small but extremely pretty park on land that was once occupied by a huge paper mill. The park designers have done a nice job of incorporating a few bits of surviving brickwork from the mill buildings, but it is a stark contrast to the similar mill buildings at the river in Saco/Biddeford which remain intact and are gradually being repurposed.

Pictures clockwise from top left: a couple of glimpses of the waterfalls; a broken brick arch; what happens when E5N1 pulls a silly face and I ask him not to and then take a photo looking only at his face; calm as a mill-pond; a cormorant; a cormorant doing "The Cormorant".

and then there was getting ready for school which starts again tomorrow. It will be a shock to the system for sure.