10/01-/10/30/2020: Our final month in Maine is always the most beautiful. The fall breeze brings a completely new color pallet to the trees. The homes in this area are painted with bold colors like plum purples and navy blues, which pop against the orange and red leaves.

They surely know how to compliment the beauty of the surrounding area with homes that are all unique and picturesque.

We kicked off the month with our final Team Time Tuesday as a complete team as some of our fellow camp hosts were moving on to their next destinations. This is a normal thing as some work camping jobs overlap in schedule. This is why a lot of campgrounds will offer a bonus if you can stay through to the end of the season.

The night of Team Time was also a full blood moon which we could watch rise on the horizon from the waterfront.

I captured some of the fall colors around the campground and near the bus, including the cats and our fall decor.

Alex and Charleen’s friend Nathan came to visit so Jake went on a hike with them. When they came back we played Settlers of Catan, a favorite of ours this summer.

We had our final Team Time Tuesday at Archer’s on the Pier, a tradition of Catherine and Scott’s. As advocates of recycling, Catherine and Scott participate in a recycling program in Maine which returns the bottle deposits to the campground. When guests check in, we ask them to separate their recycling and we collect and sort it all summer, adding little by little to our end of season dinner at Archer’s fund.

We got to enjoy whatever food and drink we wanted which is amazing when you’re eating at such a high end restaurant. We got to try new food and drinks as well as revisit some of our favorite dishes from last year’s dinner.

We took the boat out with Alex, Charleen, and Alex’s parents to Vinalhaven island for a little bot of exploration on the mysterious island.

The island is only accessible by boat or ferry and we had never taken a day to see what there was on the island. The ride was fun, but there wasn’t much to see on the island. The people living there were still very fearful of outsiders since Covid was still a tense issue at the time. There was still no vaccine and they preferred to be isolated on the island.