Blogs from Bar Harbor, Maine, United States, North America - page 6

Today Sally and I took a drive thru Acadia National Park. The entrance to the park is right outside of Bar Harbor. The drive around the park was unbelievable!! Don't know how else to describe it. Because it's a national park I was able to use my senior park pass. You can purchase it at age 62 at any national park or any National Park office for $10. With the pass, you never have to pay again to enter a national park. Anyway, the drive thru Acadia was amazing. The road winds partway along the coast and then goes thru deep green forests. We drove to the top of cadillac mountain where we were able to see Bar Harbor and a panaramic view of Frenchman's bay. There were two cruise ships anchored in the harbor today ... read more

Or as the locals might say, “Bump-ah to Bump-ah in Bah Hah-bah”. Despite gaining an hour during our journey from Nova Scotia overnight, we seemed pressed for time this morning. We hustled up to the Lido for a quick breakfast. Continental service starts at 6:30, but hot breakfasts aren’t available until 7:00. We had an 8:00 AM meeting time in the Showroom for our excursion, but needed to clear immigration first, starting at 7:30 AM. Actually it was closer to 8:00 AM before the immigration folks from Homeland Security were onboard. There were more than one disgruntled passengers waiting in line, into and through the casino and to the Explorer’s Lounge where lines were separated into the U.S./Canadian line and Other Non-U.S. citizens. We finally got up to the immigration agents, who were asking everyone where ... read more

Hi! I'm resending the photos from the last blog so that you can open them. I was in a hurry to get this out yesterday and forgot to re-save each photo in a much smaller size. I did that this morning so that you should be able to open these photos much more easily. Each blog takes between 2 -3 hours -- selecting the photos and editing them, writing the narrative, then sending them via the internet which takes around 1/2 hour if it's a good connection. We have a hard time getting a decent WiFi connection on these trips and usually when we do it's for a very limited time. So sometimes, in my rush, I screw up. Sorry. Paula ... read more

9/26/11 - Monday We stayed over another day at Patten Pond to go on the cruise. The boat was the Atlanticat. New boat with a lot of the latest technology. The tour was 3 to 3.5 hours. Saw a young humpback whale and returned to port. We decided to have dinner at Friendly's Restaurant p Shelby - New England Fish and Chips - - Aleta - Mini munchers - mini mozzerella sricks, small chicken quesades, waffle cheese fries - - Barbara- cheese burger plate---Jack-- Vermonter burger. Then we all had ginormous (local term) desserts.... read more

09/25/2011 Revisited Acadia National Park since the fog has lifted for today. We will be able to see Cadillac Mountain, Which is the first land in the U.S. that sunrise touches, even though it is only around 1600 ft. above sea level. Even though it was sunny in Bar Harbor, whale watching was cancelled due to fog 22 -25 miles off shore. 09/24/2011 Stayed over extra day to try whale watching again. Yeah!! we are going. We went out on a jet powered catamaran, the Atlanticat, saw harbor porpoises, seals, many sea birds, and what they called a teenage humpback whale(which you will see was almost impossible to get pictures). 09/27/2011 Travel day. Overnight in Bristol, NH. 09/28/2011 Travel day to Metcalf Acres Campground in Schroon Lake, NY. Traveled scenic hwy in the dark, it was ... read more