For the next few days we explored the Island and Acadia National Park. Once you get out of the Bar Harbor, the roads are way less crowded. It seems like 98% of everyone on the Island is in Bar Harbor. We headed out toward Bass Harbor and the Lighthouse. When we found it, there was a very small parking lot and very full, but we were lucky and someone pulled out of a spot as we were nearing them. Wandered down to the lighthouse for a peek. They don’t let you inside except one day around Labor Day weekend so we were out of luck. It was a very small lighthouse and kind of plain, but it appeared to still be in use. Most of the others aren’t used anymore from what we could tell during our visits. Took some pics, talked to the docent for a bit, and heard we could walk down in front of it from the other side of the parking lot. We walked over there and the path was a mud bog, so we went back to the car and left. By then there were about 10 cars waiting to park in this small parking lot. Held maybe 15 cars… I was guessing the last guy in line would have a long wait.
On the map was a place called Seawall and we drove in that direction. The coast up here is breathtaking. When we arrived at Seawall, there wasn’t much there but a stone seawall and we kept going till Southwest 
Harbor came into view. It was another cute little village with lots of boats tethered in the harbor. Not much in the way of beaches up here, the coastline is very rocky. Must be hazardous to your boat if you lose power.
We walked around and snapped a couple pics, then off on a drive way around an inlet toward Northeast Harbor. They are not very creative with the naming up here. On the way we found Sargent Road right along what the sign said was the only Fjord in the US, with some spectacular ships moored there, the type we saw in Monaco the day after the Gran Prix. Then we found the spectacular waterfront estates. Kathy was in awe with all the trees and the inlets, nothing like what you find in San Diego at all.
It was another picturesque village with another cute harbor full of moored boats. Something I hadn’t mentioned yet are the scads of buoys all around the shoreline. I am assuming they are attached to lobster pots below them, but as I had not seen anyone pulling them up, I don’t have any empirical data to prove that. 🙂 I have not seen anything that looked like it was a commercial lobster growing area, so I am guessing all these Maine lobsters are harvested right off the rocky shore. And there is a lot of shoreline here.
We then drove over to Seal Harbor and found a dock to park on, a perfect spot to walk the pups and take some more pics. Some of the boats tethered here were small fishing vessels. Very cool. When I moved to San Diego, there was a huge tuna fishing fleet and I looked into working on them, but speaking Portuguese was a requirement so I crossed that off my list. Now there are almost no fishing vessels there. Kind of sad.
The following day we did Acadia National Park. Checked out the Park Loop Road first thing in the morning. Found some really great overlooks, then we found a beach, out in the middle of nowhere among the rocks and trees. Truly amazing. It was so amazing to hear waves like the ocean. My Cuz and family are at or traditional Beach Week in South Mission Beach, so it reminded us of it. Then more overlooks and 
lunch at a place I had noticed the afternoon before. Then off to hike around Cadillac Mountain. Not much of a mountain compared to what we spent the first couple of months on the trip around. Pretty view from the top though.
A funny thing happened in the traffic on the top o the mountain. Some arrogant prick cut me off so he could get a parking spot ahead of us. But as karma works, just as he passed a parked car, its backup lights lit and I got a spot. I noticed a little while later he was still circling the parking lot. Some things just make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
