Bar Harbor, Maine... Gosh, they really do talk like that!

Used tenders to get to shore today… Water was pretty smooth so it was not a hard transfer. Bar Harbor started as a playground for the rich and their family cottages (a home with over 50 rooms, dining for 100 friends, etc, etc… Rockefellers, etc…) It’s still got ‘money’ but it also has a huge amount of tourism too. The towns shopping area is quite quaint… and quite pricey… bet, if we came in January, there would be many more deals and good prices. The town actually, in the 40s found many of it’s homes and hotels wiped out by a huge fire…. Acres and acres…They said that’s why they have such gorgeous ‘colors’ in the fall… the evergreen trees have not really grown back full force, and the deciduous trees are the ones that are prevalent now, bet you didn’t know that!
Took a bus to Acadia National Park, lots of history there… but one big thing they are know for are the carriage roads. Over 52 miles of roads that were built from 1913 and 1940 by a Rockefeller… all by hand… and for horses and carriages. Quite the feat back then! To this day, no cars are allowed on the carriage roads. Rockefeller donated it all to the park system which was his intent the whole time. We took about an hour ride.
As we left, we went to Cadillac Mountain… (Hill in our area it would be called)… but the vista’s and area were beautiful. Could even see our boat from way up there. Same sorta stone that was in Nova Scotia was here. All granite and everywhere! In someways, the views and stuff reminded us of Mount Constitution in the San Juans… same magestic views.
So… had to have a famous LOBSTER ROLL…. Was good… and now I can say I’ve had one. Lots of meat on it…
I’ll tell you, I’m tired… we have been going so much on this trip. Boston is next. Maybe I can get some rest there! Keep on dreaming Jean, temps are suppose to be stifling when we are there!