Cromwell Harbor Bar Harbor

... sight to behold. There are several standout museums in Bar Harbor, and the Mount Desert Oceanarium, in particular, is outstanding. This city is a great place for the whole family, as there is a wide array of activities to captivate young and old alike. The dining in Bar Harbor is magnificent, and if you are a fan of lobster, you will adore the possibilities here. You can find surf ...

... polio. He came up from New York to join his family on the island apparently already showing some signs of the disease. After a day of arduous exercise he started to show signs of paralysis. Five weeks later he was taken off the island on a stretcher unable to walk. He only returned to the island a few more times between 1921 and 1939. The park is unique in the fact that it is an international park funded equally by the Canada and the US ...

... there that I crunched my 1953 Volkswagen by hitting a deer on the New York Thruway. The leaves on that part of the trip were at peak color, and the mountain vistas were gorgeous!

The next leg of the journey was through the inland part of Maine. We were really disappointed with that part. The forests have been cut repeatedly over the last 300 years, and there are very few hardwoods of any size. The ...

... and always thought that were from the south rather than up here. They were as good as I had remembered.

Like many small ports, it is pretty easy to cover the town in a couple of hours. We did buy a couple of water colors by a local artist. The shop called Macey's is really no relation. The family name is Mace.

The departure was interesting because the captain had to basically tip toe out of he harbor missing all of the thousands of lobster pot bouys.

We drove from Atlanta up to Maine the second week of September. For three months, the weather in Maine was generally seasonably warm and mostly very sunny. This gave us the chance to take many hikes at Acadia National Park, about 10 miles from home. We also went to Atlanta for Halloween, and ...

... to find a restaurant for dinner. We finally decided on a dock-side location on the wharf called Stewman’s Lobster Pound. Three of us had hamburgers (they missed them on our trip) and crab and fish sandwiches for the remainder of us. It is now time to retire to the Bar Harbor Motel to rest up for tomorrow’s activity of touring Acadia National Park.

Good night from Maine, home of great lobster and Acadia National Park!

... left, drive up to the intersection just in front of you, park somewhere on the roadside, and walk down the dead end road at the intersection to the right, at its end, there is a trailer the rangers stay in, to the left, and going straight is a paved path leading to the Beach and thunder Hole. The Hotels and inns use to give their paying guests a map showing how to see the park for free, as I have just told you, but the rangers convinced them to stop doing it.
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... WOW! It is hard to imagine a more beautiful meeting of land and sea. We just walked along the dock and took it in, but the 65 degree weather felt brisk with the breeze coming in off the water. So we went inside the hotel and back in time. Southwest Harbor is found on the western side of the island which is known as the "quiet side". It definitely fit the bill as we drove through the area, there was little or no traffic or people to ...

... and picked up a few souveniers, ate some Maine lobster (I decided I don't like lobster) and spent a little time by the ocean. We found some seashells and Matt tasted the ocean for the first time in his life. I was disappointed because it wasn't like how I'm used to seeing the wide open ocean, it was a harbor, obviously, and you could see land on pretty much all sides. Shortly after, we had to get back into the car to head for Millinocket ...

We drove out to the Acadia Zoo for an encounter with Melbourne the Moose. Melbourne was rescued when he was a baby and his mother was hit by a car. The zookeeper spent 24-7 with him for 6 months and became his surrogate moose mother. He has been featured on Animal Planet. She took us out to see him, told us all about moose and let us feed him willow switches. Aside from the Moose and wolf refuge the ...