The next morning we headed over to check out Bar Harbor and to get a lobster roll for lunch. I popped my head into a local barber shop and asked where to find the best one he knew of. (I was told to ask a local. Who better than the local barber, I say) I asked him where he would go, and he said to his house, that he makes the best one. We didn’t get an invite but he mentioned a place right up the street that he said makes a pretty good one.
We walked over and had lunch. It was good, I didn’t know it was a lobster salad put on a roll for twenty bucks. Now I know. Afterward we got the pups out of the car.. (It was cool and rainy when we got there) and after a bit, the rain stopped. There are a lot of chatshky shops in Bar Harbor, and there were a zillion people there on this Friday afternoon. One store owner told Kathy it was very unusual to have so many people there. Said it was due to a motorcycle rally or something. Plus there was a Holland America cruise ship in the harbor, so that probably didn’t help when it offloaded another 2,000 people into downtown.
We headed down to the wharf area where I saw a lobster boat offloading its catch right into a truck via a winch on a mast. They must have had about 200 huge plastic containers full of lobsters stacked up on the deck, and the stack was at least 10 feet tall when I first got there. The winch was taking two bins at a time right up to the truck bed where the truck driver just pulled them into the back. I could not see what was going on in the back as his truck opening was even with the edge of the wharf over the water. Wouldn’t have wanted to back that up any more as it was a good 20′ drop to the boat deck or the water.
It was very low tide, and it appears the difference from high to low tide here is quite a bit. It looked like 10-12 feet or more. That seems nuts to me. It’s maybe 4 – 6 feet difference in San Diego, so I am not sure how it could be so much more here.