One and a quarter pound lobster, clam chowder, and corn chased with a wheat beer. We’ve just finished three days in Bar Harbor, Maine. Here are a few photos.
Question: Does this look like warm or cold weather? Answer: almost always cold and windy near the water but warm hiking in the mountains.
Windy Maine.
Bar Harbor sits on the northern end of Mount Desert Island. Here’s sunset over the bay.
Yes, the water is cold.
For our first walk, we hiked up Gorham Mountain, a 525 foot peak. 525 feet doesn’t sound very high but it is 525 feet above the sea that you can see below you. I think the Twin Cities are around 900 feet above sea level.
The Aysgarth Station B and B has been completely full (six rooms) for our three night stay.
The house cat, Asticou, spends some time outside in the front yard on a leash . . .
. . . and some time rubbing on the legs of guests.
This is Somes Sound, an inlet/fjord on the western part of the island. The sound has tides like all of the ocean shores—11 to 13 foot tides!
The hiking has been good. This morning we will attend an Episcopal Church service (no Lutheran church in town) before heading out to Rockport down the coast from here. More later.
*****We watched Ghana and Germany not beat each other yesterday afternoon. . . poor Christoph. Poor, poor Christoph
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