Hi Again!
I once heard that the then director of the National Park System was asked what his favorite park was. He answered that Acadia, unequivocally, was the best park! I have wanted to see it ever since then.
However, first we had to drive there…..passing some interesting things along the way. We passed a beautiful bridge.
Then Fort Knox, below the bridge.
Our next stop was for lunch — guess what? LOB-STAH! And it was the freshest, sweetest yet!!!
We passed this sign along the way. Mac-LOUD is what Carla (my sister-in-law) calls my very boisterous family 🙂
We arrived in Bar Harbor on yet another beautiful sunny day. We moved into our room for the next four nights at the Bluenose Inn.
The room was lovely…..but the view from our balcony was amazing!
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We shopped and went by the waterfront on our way to our dinner restaurant — yet another delicious meal!
We awakened on Friday — our day to visit Acadia — and this was the view out the window. WHAAAT????
Actually it was worse when I first got up; I just didn’t take the picture right away!! Where did our sunshine go???
But it was off to Acadia anyway. We did have a lunch reservation in the park.
We went up the Cadillac Mountain Road; the views were wonderful.
We had made reservations for the Jordan Pond House restaurants about six weeks or more before we left and the earliest time we could get was 2:30 pm. The restaurant is famous for its popovers…..so we each had a popover to start, then I had a lobster filled popover and John had a salad and then ordered a dark chocolate fudge over vanilla ice cream filled popover. All were wonderful!!!
We had spent most of the day but had only done a portion of the park. And then it was getting colder and so we headed back to the hotel.
The next morning we headed back to the park to see the remaining portion of the park and then some.
We had downloaded an audio tour for the car when we entered the park and we had listened the day before but now took the normal one-way tour of the park. This side was even more beautiful so I will apologize now for how many pictures are in this blog. (Also, John takes a lot of pictures too….so I have to include some of his as well!). The much enlarged picture above is the Egg Rock Lighthouse — very different from the normal lighthouse — the viewing area and light emerge from the middle of the house!
In honor of Dianne Feinstein…..
It was a long walk down (and back up) so I took pictures from above and John went down to the beach.
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John continued on to the Thunder Hole below.
Then out of the park and headed to Northeast Harbor for a quick look, lunch and more views.
And lots of fall foliage; the temperature had been lower the night before.
And that finished our tour of Acadia for that day!
We had a reservation at Gayln’s, probably the nicest restaurant of the trip. It was great and the blueberry apple crisp dessert was amazing!
We had one more day in Bar Harbor but this is enough blog for now.
More later,
Beth
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