We arrived at our KOA campground on the northwest side of the island yesterday in early afternoon. We have a ocean view campsite to the west over the water here on Mount Desert Island. We are at the northern end of the island (where the heart is on the map below).
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| Mount Desert Island |
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| View of beach in front of campsite |
We got set up and decided to drive into Bar Harbor for dinner. We walked through downtown toward the harbor, and enjoyed a marvelous dinner at Galyn's Restaurant (upstairs with view of the harbor). Neil had prime rib (with lobster tail) and Pamela also had prime rib, both of which were tender and quite yummy. Bar Harbor reminded us of Juneau during summer cruise ship season. There was a lot of people walking the streets, and the businesses were very tourist oriented. There was even a Holland America cruise ship (the
Veendam) in port, luckily leaving as we were enjoying dinner.
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| Another Fine Dinner in Bar Harbor |
After dinner, we walked around town and looked into a few shops enjoying the view of the harbor. Pamela found an awesome tea shop with both tea, bone china cups and several gift ideas. After a bit of shopping, we followed advice and found Mt. Desert Island ice cream shop, which makes some interesting flavors, such as Callabaut dark chocolate, Butterbeer (Harry Potter inspired of butter, Butterscotch, & root beer), Bay of Figs, and Lemon Poppyseed. We ate the first two.
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| Another Big Yacht in Bar Harbor |
Today, we explored the southwest part of the island, where Neil has fond memories. Neil lived in Southwest Harbor when his father was base commander at the US Coast Guard Base there. We drove past the Hinckley Yacht Boat Yard and the old wooden boat house were he worked one summer. Today, they build both sailing boats and jet-propelled sport boats. Not only did Neil find the home they lived in in the lat 1960's, we found the Beal Lobster Pound next to the Coast Guard dock. Neil's dad always brought home lobster at least once a week from here and it has expanded the size of public tables for restaurant. We will be going there for lunch one day while here.
We followed winding road around the south end of island to Northeast Harbor, which is really on the south side of the island. We have noticed on our drive there are more chain hotels (such as Marriott, Wyndham and Super 8) since we last visited about 15 years ago, They are built in New England style and every place on island is full this weekend. It was a very pleasant drive opening new vistas and bringing back memories of past trips here, when we worked in Washington DC and came to escape the summer heat. We wound up back at Bar Harbor and had a late lunch outside overlooking the harbor as excursion boats returned from trips, one of which we will take on Tuesday.
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| Northeast Harbor Harbor |
We arrived back to the campground in time to join a number of other campers at the shore-side viewing area with our adult beverages to watch the sunset gently set across the inlet over the beach. It was a lovely sunset, but we miss our friends and family who are in Waldport, Oregon at the family camp out this weekend.
Neil and Pamela
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