Outside Camden Harbor, Maine Lies

Cedarholm Garden Bay Inn’s

Oceanfront Accommodations

Written by Chiles T.A. Larson author, photojournalist, and travel writer from Williamsburgh, Va. about our bed and breakfast/inn, in Sept/Oct 2009 Home And Away Magazine AAA Ohio.

“The spectacularly landscaped grounds of Cedarholm Garden Bay Inn are matched by the inn’s views overlooking Penobscot Bay.”

“A stone’s throw from the deck of my comfortable cottage just outside Camden, Maine, was a string of colorful lobster buoys bobbing gently with the incoming and outgoing tides. Each morning at sun-up I could hear the muffled sound of a lobster boat’s engine as it moved bee-like from pot to pot checking the day’s offerings.”

We spent the following three nights just outside of Camden at Cedarholm Garden Bay Inn, where we heard lobstermen in Penobscot Bay at work early each morning. A virtual Garden of Eden sits on the property, with several acres of stunning flowers in clusters with individually shaped boarders. Most impressive, the buildings and gardens were constructed in a wilderness setting, pioneer-like,  by Cedarholm Garden Bay Inn owners George and Kristin Palmer and her parents a dozen years ago.”

AAA Home And Away Sept/Oct 2009

AAA Home & Away Sept/Oct 2009

Maine Open Lighthouse Day on Sept. 12, 2009 is the first of it’s kind and offers the public an opportunity to tour numerous participating lighthouses that are rich in history and surrounded by natural beauty.

The Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse is just one of the many lighthouses in the Camden area and nearby Cedarholm Garden Bay Inn that provides additional scenic views of the open ocean, boating, offshore islands and the Camden Hills. The less than 1 mile walk is enjoyable and offers many opportunities for more up close views of working lobster fisherman and marine life at the entrance to Rockland Harbor.

700,000 Tons Of Cut-Granite Make Up The Breakwater

On the day we walked the breakwater we were fortunate to view harbor seals, seabirds, starfish, sea urchins and a prowling small shark called a dogfish. It is like having an aquarium at your feet.

One Of Countless Lobster Bouys Dot The Breakwater

Dogfish (Mini Shark)

Prowling The Breakwater

The Lighthouse is open most weekends in the summer thanks to Friends Of The Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse. It is being lovingly restored and inside you will find a gift shop with friendly and knowledgeable volunteers who are more than happy to answer questions on Rockland’s lighthouse and breakwater history. You may also self guide, reading the posted and pictured history from room to room and then wander your way to the top into the light.

Some Lighthouse And Breakwater History

Looking Out One Of The Numerous Original Windows

 After walking up a short flight of spiral stairs you’re now inside of the light! 

At The Top Looking Down

Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

Exiting atop the light one has 360 degree views. 

Watching Boaters

Rockland Harbor, Maine

Camden Hills, Maine