29 May 2018
Damn birds! They roused me at 4:30 am. I was on the road by 6:30 and in Bar Harbor by 4:30 pm. I can tell you that upstate New York, Vermont and New Hampshire need to spend some money on their roads.
I programmed the gps to omit toll roads and it took me the back roads through back country, small towns, hamlets, and villages. I didn’t know they still called places hamlets and villages but it’s in their name.
Norman Rockwell country is very much alive and well. Sometimes I think I could see myself in one of these little hamlets but then again, I think I would go more stir crazy than I already am in Fort Lauderdale.
I’m staying at the Yellow House B&B about 300 feet from the harbor in Bar Harbor. Why it’s called the Yellow House, I have no idea.
I’m on the ground floor with my own little private porch. The bedroom is huge – I think it must have been the dinning room at one time and the bath is equally large.
Chris was sitting on the front porch and greeted me as I drove up. After a brief introduction to the inn, and a brief survey of the town, places to eat, and trolleys to take, I decided to do a walk-about. That’s basically Main Street.
I found a Chris recommended restaurant called Galyn’s and had their carrot-ginger soup and a $20 lobster roll. To be honest, Kelly’s Landing in Fort Lauderdale is better and much cheaper. However, I was seated on the glass enclosed patio and had a perfect view of the harbor.
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I then decided to walk the 1/2 mile shore path that traces the shoreline of the harbor. All the rich muckity mucks who own property on the shore agreed to allow the path to be made for tourisms’ sake.
I confess to walking down to the rocks below and looking for rockweed – the genus Fucus about which I taught for 34 years. I loved this particular alga and got off on talking about how it reproduced based on the tides of the harbor. I also had students come back from trips to Maine and tell me how it was indeed very slippery when wet. It secretes a slime coat over the surface to protect it from the sun’s rays and desiccation at low tide. For the first time in my life I got to see it in its natural habitat. I take my joys where I can get them.
I’m debating whether to take the Chris recommended 2 1/2 hour trolley trip of Acadia for $40. I probably will. I’m not sure I want to do a lot of hiking in this park but I do have my eye on one or two short hikes. I figure the trolley trip may be a good way to get an overview for the first day and then hike the second day. Then again, I may just chuck the trolley tour and do the hiking the first day.
Apparently the weekend was a massive tourist splurge. Most people have now left the island and it is much quieter now. I think I passed have the Memorial Day tourist trade as I was coming in and they were on their way out.
Early to bed tonight because of the damn birds!
