{"id":1485,"date":"2015-06-16T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:56:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:56:23","slug":"tuesday-june-16-bar-harbor-area-2xx-miles-of-driving-loops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjunk.net\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/06\/16\/tuesday-june-16-bar-harbor-area-2xx-miles-of-driving-loops\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, June 16, Bar Harbor Area (2xx miles of driving loops!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The weather gods were not with us today! It was either drizzly or foggy or
\nboth, so we drove around a lot not seeing much by way of views. But we got
\na good sense of some of the area and know of some places to go back to. And
\nwe got to spend some time with an old friend of mine, so that was great.<\/p>\n

We started out with a drive along the scenic loop road through Acadia
\nnational park, but even though some parts are beautiful in the rain, we
\nclearly have to go back because you couldn’t see out into the bay \/ Gulf of
\nMaine. So we hope to do that when it’s nicer tomorrow. We then drove
\nthrough the middle of Mount Desert Island (the island on which Bar Harbor
\nand the national park are located) and on through the town of Ellsworth to
\nSullivan, where my friend Cecily lives right on the bay in a house that her
\nparents, friends of the Andersons, built there when they retired. I hadn’t
\nseen her in 13 years and we had a lot to catch up on as we had coffee at her
\nplace and then went to Ellsworth for lunch at a fun cafe in an old Victorian
\nschoolhouse. We also checked out the view (drippy as it was) at the bottom
\nof her property, where she can look across the bay to an island. After
\nlunch, we took a bit of a drive from her place to the nearby “forgotten
\npart” of the national park, the Schoodic peninsula past the teeny town of
\nWinter Harbor. The rock formations at the beach head were great, and Mark
\nand I clambered around in it for a bit(Cecily passed, because the rocks were
\nslippery–she lost part of her right leg to diabetes a couple of years ago
\nand gets around amazingly well, but that was a bit much!). But again, the
\nviews were nonexistent.<\/p>\n

About 3:30, we took our leave from Cecily, and we drove back to Mount Desert\u00a0island, with a bit of a detour when we discovered these great tidal falls\u00a0that were in full whitewater action as the tide was going out and got pushed\u00a0over a bunch of rocks. We drove the western loop through the west half of\u00a0the island, and despite fog and some more drizzle, we stopped at a famous\u00a0but VERY short lighthouse from the 1850s–the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse. \u00a0Again, fun rock climbing, and a fog bell from a buoy made it very\u00a0atmospheric, but no views. We drove past Southwest Harbor and through a\u00a0little town that had exclusively those little clapboard white houses that\u00a0make up so much of this island’s housing, without the mix of minutely\u00a0restored Victorian B&Bs and fake-old posh resorts that we found in Bar\u00a0Harbor–a town that’s sort of like Estes Park or Jackson Hole in that it is\u00a0all tourist-oriented and partly super-elite. Except that here, there are
\nprobably more super-rich than even in Jackson Hole–before a big fire in
\n1947, the whole town was big resorts and mansions, and according to Richard,\u00a0Martha Stewart, Susan Sarandon, and various political figures live here, as\u00a0well as the last Rockefeller son, who is 100, and lives at the edge of the\u00a0national park, for which his dad (John D.?) bought and donated most of the\u00a0land.<\/p>\n

We wrapped up the day with cheap Chinese dinner and an hour at the
\nlaundromat, and then crawled into our hotel room bed to await the allegedly
\nimproving weather forecast for tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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