Southwest Harbor to Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor back to Camden
Rather than pre-dawn departures and 10-30 hour passages, we’re enjoying day hops from island to island or town to town. It’s a nice change of pace after two years covering nearly 4,000 miles.
After Southwest Harbor, we pushed on into Bar Harbor, a famous tourist spot on Mount Desert Island, which is also the gateway to Acadia National Park. Despite it’s popularity with tourists, Bar Harbor as managed to preserve some of its coastal New England heritage.
We wandered the village. I got a much needed haircut with Jennifer, the wife of a lobsterman who always has interesting stories to tell. We walked the sandbar connecting Bar Island to Bar Harbor. This strip of land is only exposed at low tide. One of my favorite pasttimes is skipping stones. I can spend hours sidearming flat stones into the water, trying to get the most bounces possible. I’m still waiting for it to become an Olympic event. Bar Island has plenty of flat stones and calm water on the Frenchman Bay side of the sandbar.
After four nights “on the hook” (at anchor), we returned to Camden to celebrate Sandy’s birthday, and to wait for our first onboard guests, Todd and Kathy, to arrive Sunday. Dinner was at the Albatross, a tapas restaurant that uses local ingredients, followed by an ice cream at Camden Cone.
The day was capped off by an incredibly moonrise over the Penobscot Bay. See the image below.
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That moon rise photo is amazing!
Everything looks beautiful and awesome! Enjoying all the history and pictures! And Happy Birthday Sandy!
Thanks, Maria.
Happy Birthday, Sandy!
Thanks, Larry!
Sounds wonderful. Happy birthday Sandy! Great job on the posts and photos. Love it. We have finally had a couple of good sailing weather days on Ontario
That’s great, Jim.
What a great spot to be hopping between. Is that a Delta sail you’re flying at anchor? Do you find it difficult to rig? We actually have one, but don’t use it much because of the effort to put up. I wonder if we’re doing it correctly. Happy birthday Sandy!!!
Larry, It’s not a Delta. It’s a plain storm sail. It too some trial and error, but I found a quick and easy technique to deploy it. Takes 5 minutes. Glad to discuss if you’re interested. Fregata swings a suprising amount at anchor and it definitely stabilizes things nicely.
Great pictures! the moonrise was incredible and the seal…sigh…(that might have been in another post)..we had such a hard time capturing a picture of them. I fell in love with seals. ❤️ Happy Belated Birthday to Sandy! sounds like it was a lovely day.
Thanks, Elizabeth. Seals are indeed elusive. They show up and give yopu just enough time to get your camera, then they dive :-).
Happy Birthday, Sandy! What a wonderful place to celebrate it.
Thanks, Caroline. Looking forward to having you and Mike onboard.
Happy Birthday Sandy. Miss seeing your garage door open each morning as you head to the Y.
Thanks, Karen. We miss the ‘hood.
Happy Birthday Sandy!! Visited Acadia many decades ago-remember how beautiful and peaceful. Safe travels..
Thanks, Nancy!
I appreciate this vicariously. Happy Birthday, Sandy. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks, Richard!
Hey, Dan, How’d you manage to order up that
magnificent moonrise for the Admiral’s birthday!?
It’s a very photogenic region… makes it easy!
I bribed the governor 🙂
It’s great seeing how you both are enjoying this fabulous area, Sandy, special celebration and the avoidance of lobster pots. Haven’t been to Maine in a while and the islands and shoreline are amazing!
Looking forward to sharing it with you, Donna!