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After
morning coffee on roof deck overlooking lake, canoe
around Chute Island, looking for loons, or paddle
to Crooked Island, heading west, to watch Osprey from
large nest and swim off sandy beach cove .
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Read
book in one of three lakeside hammocks,
strewn between tall pines.
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Take
nightly walk to tip of Point before retiring
for bed. On chilly evenings, wrap yourselves in blankets
from linen closet. (On clear evenings, check starry skies
or moon on water.) Take nighttime boat ride,
guided by red lights on flagpole.
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One
evening, turn huge dining room into dance hall,
fueled by your CDs on house stereo.
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Climb
nearby French’s Mountain –
a 20-minute hike that overlooks lakes. Walk along its
rock ledges to reach stunning views. Bring picnic
lunch and bottle of wine. (Go out Jamaica Point
and at top of hill make left onto Rte. 225 going toward
Belgrade Lakes Village. At end of road turn right on Rte.
27 away from village. Make next left and pass Rome Strawberry
Patch. Small trail opening is about one-half mile on left
as road widens on left for parking vehicles.)
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Drive
up Blueberry Hill overlooking Long Lake.
Lookout is on same road as French’s Mountain, but
several miles up on left.)
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Take
rental boat from Jamaica Point over to
Belgrade Lakes Village for shopping, strolling,
lunch or dinner at Village Inn. To get to village,
go around Hoyts Island, through channel markers. Find
channel on other side of lake, marked by quaint boat houses.
Follow channel markers to Village Inn and The Boathouse
docks.
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Play
the PGA-quality Belgrade Lakes Golf Club, rated
one of top five public courses in country. Rent cart to
survive hills overlooking lakes. From lodge, go through
village, taking Rte. 27. Bear right at fork, passing Sunset
Grill. Golf Club is .4 miles on left. 495-4653 the PGA-quality
links Golf club www.BelgradeLakesGolf.com
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Take
a day trip to either:
- Hallowell (antiques), Ocean Point (rock ledge coast)
or Boothbay Harbor (the Key West of Maine, but less commercial).
- The quaint, oceanfront town of Belfast. (Penobscot Bay
boat ride goes to Castine Island.)
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Make
appointments for on-site massages by
Therapeutic Kneads’ Carol Story at 397-4220 or visit
spa just outside Belgrade Lakes village.
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Walk,
bike or jog up pristine Jamaica Point Road.
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Watch
“On Golden Pond” on the house VCR.
(Playwright Earnest Thompson’s summer home is on
lake.) Visit Riverside Farm Market in Oakland for
nice outdoor lunches and take-home turkey-pot pies, wines,
muffins, pottery, etc. (495-4439). Take 137 into Oakland
and make left at light after railroad tracks (five-corner
intersection) onto Fairfield Street. Riverside is about
one plus mile down on your right. Tell them Jamaica
Point Lodge sent you.
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Visit
Riverside Farm Market in Oakland for
nice outdoor lunches and take-home turkey-pot pies, wines,
muffins, pottery, etc. (495-4439). Take 137
into Oakland and make left at light after railroad tracks
(five-corner intersection) onto Fairfield Street.
Riverside is about one plus mile down on your right.
Tell them Jamaica Point Lodge sent you.
