We spent a rather unpleasant day driving 200 miles through Maine in continuous rain from Bethel in the west to the Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island on the Atlantic coast. We are staying in a very pleasant bed and breakfast house in Southwest harbour. Fortunately the weather cleared in the evening and we able to take a pleasant walk along the coast by Bar Harbour, the largest town on the island. For dinner, I achieved a first. Under close instruction from the restaurant owner I managed to consume a local lobster. It was delicious. [View Full Entry]

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The cloudless skies returned today and with very clear viability we had a magnificent time introducing ourselves to the Acadia National Park. The park was denoted to the nation by several rich families including the Rockefellers. It has a glaciated coastline including one of only two fiords on the east coast of America and several hills of over 1000’ with bare granite summits poking through the trees. The autumn tree colours were probably the best we have seen on the trip. In the morning we took a ferry trip which visited two of the outlying islands both of which seem to [View Full Entry]

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