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Travel Blogs from Bar Harbor
Playing In Vacationland
Mary's Impressions:
Continuing on our journey to catch the fall colours on the U.S. Eastern Coast, we made our way to the state of Maine also known as Vactionland. The name is an appropriate description for the US state that draws thousands of vacationers who visit its many lakes, rivers, long coastline (about 5,000 miles) or go camping and hiking in its forest (about 17 million acres of forestland). Our main purpose however in coming to Maine was ...
New Hampshire, Three Authors, and the Maine Coast
... would not be so bad (he said, typing on his new laptop using the local wifi).
Finally making it to New Hampshire, we stayed in another mostly vacant campground (very late in the season), but there are some perks to doing that. In this case, the campground had a game room with ping pong and a pool table, and we had it to ourselves for the three nights we were there.
We spent one full day in camp to do boring stuff like laundry and work, and then ...
One final walk on the pedestrian path...
Kim fell in love with Bar Harbor - could move there in a minute, if it weren't for their cold winters, so for one last glimse of this wonderful little harbor town, we took one last walk along the harbor trail and took some final photos for memories.
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Hiking on Mt. Cadillac
Final morning in Bar Harbor, we headed up to Mt. Cadillac one more time to see if we could see the views - only to find it even foggier than the day before and the wind was howling! So we headed back down the mtn and in just a short distance, we finally saw some of the views of the village and bay below. The views are a bit dim, because the fog was swirling around the mountain, but the view was still pretty cool from up there.
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Day 5- Little hikes and big lobsters
... at the great outside deck overlooking the harbor, while watching the lobster boats come in laden with more lobster pots. Yumm!
Back at the campground we donned warm clothes and drove to nearby Sand Beach. We lay on our blanket in the soft sand and gazed at a clear night sky filled with a myriad of bright stars as well as planets, meteors and satellites -which were identified out by the guest astronomer. Stars on the beach-who can beat ...