Bar Harbor, ME

June 16 - 17, 2012

We're in Bar Harbor, Maine for 6 or 7 nights. This is our third straight summer with a trip to Maine. We really do like it here. Folks often ask us why we keep coming back to Bar Harbor, since Bar Harbor is very crowded and there's lots more of Maine to see and like. On our first trip to Maine we stayed at some other places which were also nice, but Bar Harbor is our favorite. While there are plenty of other fun and picturesque coastal towns in Maine, none of the others have Acadia National Park.

This is our second year in a campground called Narrows Too. We like it pretty well. No trains, but this one has planes. We're next door to the Bar Harbor airport. Granted, most of the air traffic is private planes and there are no planes at night, but it's still a bit of an annoyance.

The campground overlooks the water and it's fun to watch the tidal changes. We got a really good deal for this campground with our Passport America discount, but we were restricted to the "standard" rather than "premium" sites. Here's the view from our campsite. So far nobody is in the campsite in front of us. The view will disappear when someone arrives.




There's a small island off the coast of Bar Harbor called Bar Island. At low tide, it's possible to "walk on the ocean floor" across to Bar Island. We walked over with SiSi who was fascinated with the smells on the "ocean floor."


The lupin was in bloom. I wonder if this deer walked across the ocean floor too.


After a short hike to the island's summit, we enjoyed this beautiful view of Bar Harbor across the water.


We had dinner at a "lobster pound" near the campground. Lobster pounds are very casual restaurants where you pick your own freshly caught lobster. They steam it over a wood fire outside (with corn if you want) and then they serve it to you in a metal pan. It was wonderful. I had a 1.75 pound lobster and Rick had a 2.5 pound lobster, drinks, and blueberry pie for $51. Such a deal!