Bar Harbor does not have a “u” in it, contrary to my earlier post, damn yanks 🙂 This has to be the prettiest place we’ve seen so far, and it’s one place we’d both love to come back to for a longer visit. The day started with a beaut breakfast and then onto the bus to visit Acadia National Park; this alone is worth a week! Fantastic scenery and the Information Center had all plant, tree and fern species individually labelled, great idea. The bus took us up to Cadillac Mountain, stupendous views! Back down to the township and dropped off to start a shopping spree (again, oh my aching feet and wallet) .. mind you, this town is setup just for tourism. We had a really nice lunch at a place called “Carmen Verandah”; Buffalo Chicken Salad for herself and a toasted sandwich for me. We also tried a local beer, Blueberry Ale, yum! More shopping (including trying every single tourmaline ring on in one jewellery store). Finally, footsore and pretty buggered, we headed back to our hotel, ready for a “highlight” dinner tonight, Maine’s speciality; LOBSTER 🙂 Woohoo!!

A few things he left out ….this part of the world is famous for its wild blueberries , hence the blueberry beer at lunchtime, but we also had ice cream …blueberry of course…yummo …..there were some really lovely sights this morning , we also saw a Beaver pond , the beavers had built 2 lodges …thus damming the creek, creating a pond, very interesting. The sad thing is, beavers are the largest rodents in North America, takes the gleam off them eh? After the fur trade as mentioned in previous posts, they were almost extinct, but being rodents they are in safe numbers now. Another almost extinct species that is bringing itself back from almost extinction is the Peregrine Falcon, apparantly, some of the chemicals we were using over recent decades caused their egg shells to be soft, DDT in particular. We also saw the laboratory where all the mice for scientific research are bred ,  ewwww, but very interesting. Better go …off to Lobster dinner, a real specialty here. Web are apparantly getting a special gift tonight for being return Insight customers, don’t hold your breath, will report on this in next post …love to all …Mrs Always Right XXXXX  Oh and I didn’t really think this was worth mentioning but we went to see the “Thunder Hole” ……a mini Kiama Blow Hole ! They thought it was good, I thought it was a waste of shopping time! XXXX  Ian, look closely at the wine list photo, particularly the reds!