Baa Haa Baa Maine-----Thats Maine Speak AND Acadia National Park

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 Bar Harbor from atop Cadillac Mountain. Claims to be the highest mountain in the Maritimes. 1500 feet tall. We Oregonians call that a hill.
The town of Bar Harbor is to the left in the picture just at the shoreline. Cute little tourist town. Beautiful shoreline.
Free shuttle bus system through out the harbor and Acadia National Park. Ranger led tours, boat tours, bicycle rental, hiking, kayak rental, carriage rides AND lots and lots of Lobster for your dining delight.

We took a day trip on a sailing Schooner.  We boated to Baker Island with the Ranger,  who provided us  a complete history of Bar Harbor, Baker Island and Acadia National Park. Drove the 27 mile  oceanside loop around the  island, hiked Cadillac mountain, ate ice cream and dined on lobster. Life gets no better!

It seems in the mid-1800's,  the wealthy movers and shakers of the Eastern seaboard were looking for a summer location to build vacation cottages.  You know, the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, JP Morgan, Henry Ford etc.etc, etc. They swept in to Bar Harbor, leaving their 100 room landlocked mansions to build  quaint little 20 room seashore bungalows. 

 Later, some of those same "movers and shakers" donated portions of their lands to  help create Acadia National Park.

Where Lobster was so plentiful they scooped it up off the shoreline and  the hired help wrote into their contracts to NOT have to eat lobster any more than 3 days a week. Imagine that!

Look at this beauty. Just a little vacation bungalow for the more moneyed folks of our society.

The coast line of Acadia is peppered with these modest vacation homes.

Blue Lobster. Genetic mutation.  One in a thousand are blue. Nobody eats the blue lobster. Very rare find.
Did you know Lobsters are either right or left handed. They have one smaller claw and one larger claw. The larger claw being the dominate claw.  It looks like they have teeth in that larger claw and your likely to loose the digit should that larger claw latch on. We were told it is impossible to open once  the claw latches on.

          Variegated cream and brown lobster. Another Genetic mutation. Did I mention we visited the Maine Lobster  Hatchery Museum?

Cooked Lobster.     NOT a genetic mutation. Yum Yum!     You can see the white teeth like protrusions in the larger claw on the left of the picture.

 

 Frenchmen Bay Cruise out of Bar Harbor on the Margaret Todd sailing schooner. We were invited to help hoist the sails once out of the harbor.

                           Sailing Bar Harbor on the Margaret Todd. Sailing is a very peaceful adventure.
                                   I  have a greater appreciation for the life of our sailing friends.

Maine Granite Industry Historical Society and Museum. Hosted and created by the above Steve Hayes.  He is a dynamic and passionate curator of the Granite Museum. He demonstrated for us  granite cutting and polishing with the hand tools from the 1800's. Steve started in the granite business at age 11 as an apprentice, collecting and preserving the history and tools of the New England Granite Quarries. He was a delight to visit.

                          




   Wait! Wait!     Did that lobster just move???

     This was too funny.  Tenting in the Walmart parking lot.  I have never known anyone to pitch a
                                     tent in the Walmart parking lot.