Blue Harbor House

... north to Nashville. In spite of making an early start I was now a good hour behind schedule. US highways often harbor police patrol cars, like predators lurking behind foliage, waiting for speeding motorists. The beauty of driving in the winter means ...

... our last night there in the Bar Harbor Hotel/Blue Nose Inn and dining at Jack Russell's, a lively beef house in the city! On to Boothbay Harbor to the Blue Heron Inn. Each city we visited on our excursion had its own beauty and charm and Boothbay was no ...

... a "must see" or is billed over the top with superlatives is just really, well, great.    We drove up to Bar Harbor today to see Acadia. It is the second most visited park in the National Park system and, as our innkeeper (and countless others) ...

... day, we started the drive up north. We stopped at a grocery store, and picked up some scones for breakfast. The drive to Oak Harbor was non-eventful, but even in the 6 months that it had been since we had been there at Christmas time, there were many ...

... and see a lighthouse. We met up again for dinner at the Jack Russell Restaurant/Brewery.  The restaurant was a beautiful old house that was converted into a restaurant.  They gave us the upstairs all to ourselves (14 kids I don't know why they ...

... you!! This required that we get away from Nassau. My friend and I boarded a tiny 6 person plane (including pilot!) over gorgeous blue-green waters to one of the outer islands. The plane ride itself was a wonderful sight seeing adventure. We caught a taxi ...

... looking ones, including the public library, used shutters in the place of windows.  I love the bright red door on this blue house.  The buildings were all pastel colors.     There is a Junior Sailing Club on the island ...

... because he was unable to find them again.  We drove off leaving Curtis churning the water in frustration. The Bass Harbor Lighthouse rises from the rocky southernmost tip of the island and provided for views of the Atlantic Ocean and ...

... of that sometime before sunrise this morning.  We appeared to be lucky -- as the sky started to lighten above Neko Harbor, it became abundantly clear that this was going to be another amazing day.  The blue and pink skies at sunrise were just ...

... our travel insurance later to see if we were covered under the lost at sea section.  As mentioned in a previous entry, Victor Harbor is a big place so finding a store which sold cameras was easy enough.  We brought a cheap and cheerful one from ...

... , though, to see Bar Harbor from up there. We could see all of the boats (lobster and every other kind) sitting in the harbor. After eating lunch at Jordan Pond, we headed back to the inn for an afternoon nap. We have to keep reminding ourselves that ...

... in Maine. We've enclosed a couple of our photos for your perusal. Our touring stumbled a bit after the lighthouse. Southwest Harbor was crowded and pretentious, and the Seawall section of Acadia was not impressive. So - we headed back to where we ...

... comfortable arriving at night and were prepared to set an anchor in the Bay if needed to await daylight before entering Willoughby Harbor Marina – our point of departure last November and where Pas de Deux would be initially docked.  We took ...

... understatement in terms of these enormous summer homes of the wealthy. A short drive along Route 1A leads us to the Nubble light house on a beautiful point of land in the Atlantic Ocean.  The lighthouse is said to be the most photographed on the ...

Well, Folks, Here we are at Aqua Harbor. After our first couple of nights and watching the weather reports for the upcoming week we were trying to decide when we could move on. It's true that we had marinas to stay at each night for the next week with out ...

... house along coastal bush line and also stopping along at the hill side of Watson's bay where we saw the sun set over the harbor side with boats casually bobbing in the waters while families feasted on fish and chips glad of the day to be cooling. It was ...

... a good nights sleep, we started to look at of things to see in Sydney, beaches, museums, zoos, aquariums, the Opera House, the harbor and bridge, the 2000 Olympic site, the many National forests surrounding the city, etc.  The cabbie exclaimed more ...

... with small, nice restaurants, big trees, hidden bays, hills, and the whole area has a view of the Sydney Opera House and the Bay Harbor Bridge. We were walking around this area when Katie saw a message board with neighborhood ads - the kind that is ...

... nbsp;Sunday we found the best deal on coffee yet, Starbucks! Actual filter coffee! We enjoyed our beloved coffee reading the paper in the harbor. The Harbour Bridge was close, so we took a tour. We learned it was quite a feat to build back in the 1920s ...

... late again before venturing out to explore the town.  the whole town is all these narrow stone allies of white house after white house with blue red, or green trim, window shutters, and doors.  you could get so lost because everything looks so ...

... and impressive Olympic complex. Then, we enjoyed a brief cruise along Sydney's Darling Harbor and stopped right next to the Opera House. The harbor views at night were slightly more impressive that the daytime. After an entire day of being out, we had a ...