A wedding and bugs

A lovely outdoor wedding on the patio of the Ashworth.




And then, an invasion of disgusting bugs! All those brown spots are the bugs. There were also little brown spiders crawling on the pavement. This was...a few days ago, just after all that rain. They were crawling all down the North Beach seawall.

Northeastern Surfing Championship: Ladies Longboard

Okay, some pictures of guys ended up in here too, and one of the pics is not even from the competition. It was supposed to start at 7:20, but...surfers are apparently not known for their punctuality. I wasn't feeling very well, so I very nearly passed out waiting, which is why I didn't stay for more than the first heat.

I've never seen a surf competition before. I think it would've been great if it had been held somewhere people could sit down while they were watching.

Nuns on the Beach

Eating Out: The Beach Plum

It's won a couple consecutive awards for "Number 1 Ice Cream On the Seacoast" so I was intrigued to see if it lived up to that.

I was certainly...not the only one interested. The open air, cottage style ice cream stand across from Jennes Beach was packed on the Saturday night I stopped by. Nowhere to park, nowhere to sit, and a very long line. The atmosphere was fairly convivial though and it's much nicer to sit on the sea wall than on some boring picnic table.



Prices were very reasonable, especially for the amount of ice cream you get (like any good ice cream place, order the small or "kiddie" size, the medium and large will be too much to handle). There are what looks like more than fifty flavors of ice cream, and several more of frozen yogurt, as well as seafood, hamburgers and hot dogs.

As far as the actual ice cream goes...it was great but I'm confused as to how it can be voted "best ice cream" when about a quarter of the flavors are the Gifford's brand, a collection of ice cream flavors manufactured in Maine and distributed to several restaurants, including ones as far north as Berlin. There are local ice cream shops that make all their own flavors.

But you can't beat the atmosphere, so I suppose that counts.

Eating Out: Seabrook: Tripoli's

Tripoli's is a classic takeout pizza place on Seabrook Beach near the Salisbury border. We'd been meaning to try this one for awhile.

My sister didn't like the square shape, because it reminds her of school cafeteria pizza. Although I remember the high school switching to triangular pizza slices, the minuscule square of pizza was definitely a staple throughout elementary and middle school.



It's definitely cheap food. There aren't many places on the beach (or in town) where you can get a slice of pizza for under two dollars. If you are down to buying food with spare change, it may not matter if the pizza doesn't exactly blow your mind. You're just paying what it's worth, which is a rare thing in boardwalk food. It's perfectly okay two dollar a slice pizza. And they have a dessert counter with plenty of delicious looking desserts (canoli!) and they also sell frozen pizza slices- their own, which is at least bound to be better than most of the frozen pizza I'm used to.

Plus, service is fast, clean and efficient, there's enough parking, picnic tables, and the business seems to have been around awhile so you can trust it. It's also open almost year round, and there aren't many places in this neighborhood where you can get fresh pizza year round for two dollars a slice.

Oh, and there's an ice cream stand next door.

The Menu



More of the peacock made out of food (too cool to downsize!)

SCA, Spring's Inspiration, Elliot, Maine

A blankmanger


This is a peacock made out of food!





Roast Rabbit

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