Bar Harbor, Maine & Acadia National Park

Reversing Falls at high tide.

Seacroft, Bar Harbor

Sand Beach

Photo bomb!

Shayna on a Loop Drive viewpoint.

Mainstreet Bar Harbor.

Bar Harbor harbor.

My Irish Seafood Stew.

Tuesday, June 14^th.

After having our included breakfast, I checked our route to Maine and saw that it went right by the Reversing Falls, so I decided we’d go there on the way. We planned to return home via the US for two reasons. One, to not have to drive the same route home and two, Shayna wanted to revisit New Hampshire. The falls were somewhere between the slack tide and high tide. They are not very exciting to look at especially on a grey drizzly morning, but we did see a pleasure craft go from the river over the ‘rapids’, which were now submerged, into the bay. Then we headed out for the American border. It was a very quiet border crossing. The crossing was very easy, and the guard was quite friendly. He was thumbing through our passports asking general questions, when he asked, ‘Do you travel for work’ and I said no for holidays, and he replied, ‘You don’t see many Antarctica stamps.’ We originally were going to drive straight to New Hampshire, but that’s a long way and we have time, so we changed plans and decided to go to Ogunquit, Maine to break it up. Then I proposed we go to Bar Harbor as well, as I had heard lots about it. We arrived at a visitor centre there about 1:30. The information clerk told us about a good B’n’B that had just had a cancellation. It turned out to be a lovely old inn called Seacroft. Our hostess, Bunny, said we could either walk to town or to the seashore… “Serenity one way … the circus the other"… This is a very busy, incredibly touristy area. There are an incredible number of accommodations, because of the beauty of the area and Acadia National Park where there is hiking, swimming, biking, horseback riding and other activities. We bought a pass and drove the scenic loop through the park, which took a couple of hours. It was like a mini-Cabot Trail with very pretty views of the coast and the Atlantic and a lovely beach called appropriately, Sandy Beach. Then we went back to our Inn to change and walk into town. We browsed some of the shops before finding a restaurant for dinner. We had a great seafood dinner at Paddy’s, during which it began to rain. Thankfully it let up so we could walk back to the Inn. We went for a nice walk along the historic Shore Path as it was getting dark and then retired for the night.