Post Office on Bear Island

Our Ship

Fri, Aug 17

Conway, NH: This morning was nice and partly cloudy. We walked the trail down to the Swift River through a forest of old growth pines and birches. Beautiful! And the river down there is very nice with a gravel bottom and no big boulders. A good place to get in the water and splash around—if the water weren’t so damn cold. After our walk we decided it would probably be the last chance to take the Lake Winnipesaukee cruise since the next few days are supposed to be quite chilly. So we headed down toward Weirs Beach, stopping at Dunkin Donuts for donut holes for Mike and a blueberry bagel for me. Got to what we thought was Weirs Beach and waited for the Mount Washington ship to pull in. When this much smaller boat pulled in I went and asked one of the crew where the Mount Washington was and he said “at Weirs Beach”. I said I thought we were at Weirs Beach. He said…”no, you’re at Meridith Beach”. Great. It’s now 3:00 and the Mount leaves at 3:15. But Mike was adamant he wanted to go on the very historic Mount Washington, so off we head—me thinking we’d never make the Mount and should have gone out on the smaller boat. But we made it (finally) to Weirs Beach and just caught the Mount. A huge boat—and it’s been running on Lake Winnipesaukee for 135 years! Turned into a beautiful afternoon and our two-hour cruise was well worth it. It’s a beautiful lake and we’re told the water is so clean the people who have homes on the lake use it for drinking water. Same at Squam Lake. I’m not so sure I’d want to drink it—maybe with some scotch in it. After our cruise we headed down the pier to a restaurant overlooking the lake with beautiful views of the mountains in the distance. A nice little beach town with lots to do and not too many people. I bought a NY Yankees tee shirt at one of the shops on the strip. Mike not too happy about that.