Saturday, April 14, 2018

Day 11.094: Fore River Trail

With the weather forecast somewhat unreliable-looking, we decided against a larger investment of driving time and instead went to explore a small trail by the Fore River Estuary at Thompson's Point in Portland. The Fore River Trail is distinct from the nearby Fore River Sanctuary.

The trail is short and fairly urban, but has some significant sections of boardwalk and some nice views of the estuary - including a surprising glimpse of a waterfall under a bridge.


Although we are always very pleased to get out of the house at this time of year, it is clearly not the most glamorous of seasons in southern Maine. We saw some birds that I will identify in a future post - and few signs of spring (and some signs of last autumn!):


At one point we took an apparently little-used side trail past this boarded-up house - we all had the feeling that despite the map we weren't sure we were in the right place. When two vultures perched on the roof it didn't make it seem any less creepy!


Soon after that, we were passed on the trail by a man cycling in a full plastic face mask - this was not a wilderness hike! We had a nice walk and then returned home for a game, dinner and some family TV time.

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