Bar Harbor

8:00 a.m.

Good morning from Bar Harbor, Maine. The weather has turned from windy with horizontal rain towards spectacular.  The sky is blue with no wind at all. It's still cool (50°F) but very pleasant with the sun.  

Bar Harbor is located on Mount Desert Island, which is also the home of Acadia National Park.  Here you can see some of the most stunning natural scenery in America.  Rocky coastlines dotted with tall deciduous trees. It's really stunning. 

I woke up early this morning and saw the sun rise on our way into Bar Harbor.  Here are a few photos:

This morning we have to file through a U. S. Immigration onboard checkpoint where they will match our faces to our passports.  I hope that all of this rich and free cruise ship food hasn't altered my visage so much that I won't match up to my passport photo.  

After we complete the immigration check we'll be free to go ashore to visit Bar Harbor and the Acadia National Park.  

7:00 p.m.

We sailed right through the Immigration check with flying colors, and were able to get a seat on one of the tender boats ferrying passengers to shore. We were packed in like sardines, and I got good chuckle out of one of my seatmates when I asked him if this was the first class section.  

Bar Harbor is a very quaint oceanfront village that is lobster-obsessed. This being Maine and all I can see why:

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There is a pretty village green that feature a 17th century bronze fountain:

The day was chilly so we stopped at a little soup and sandwich shop called Lunch and each had a bowl of Celeriac - Garlic soup. It really warmed us up!

We took a walk out of town and ran across the College of the Atlantic. It has an attractive  campus located on a long, forested parcel of land right along the water outside of Bar Harbor.  The George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History is located on the campus. Its specialty area of focus is taxidermy:

This is a mountain lion.

Here is a skunk about to be attacked by an owl. The owl may be in for a nasty surprise:

We reboarded the ship at 3:30 p.m. and by 5:00 p.m. we set sail for Boston.  We'll arrive in Boston Saturday morning and later in the day board a flight back to Los Angeles.

So that is our 2024 cruise in Canada with my siblings.  It was great to have a week together, something we probably haven't done since we were in our 20s.  We liked it so much that we are thinking about doing another cruise together if we can all line up our schedules again.

Thanks for following along! I hope everyone enjoyed it.