Bar Harbor Travel Blogs - Page 2

     We had to be up at 05:00 am to be at the ferry at 07:00. The seas were pretty rough and we were not able to go as fast as reported in the flyers, but it was amzing to see the size of this vessel. There were over 120 vehicles and most of them were trucks and large campers. J…

Acadia National Park is on the most-eastern edge of North America, which means the sun hits it before any other part of the continent each day.  Pretty cool.  In fact, except for some eastern reaches of Brazil, the sun arrives here before anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere each day.&…

We both slept relatively well but were up a bit before 8:00. We got our breakfast in the Windjammer and ate it by the taffrail, then went topside to get an overview of the harbor. This was a tender port so, once we were ready, we had to pick up a tender ticket, then wait almost an hour before our n…

The ship eased into Bar Harbor just as the sun was rising in a clear blue sky.  There was no dock so we anchored off shore and used life boats.  The departure procedure was a bit hectic due to Homeland Security requirements that we go thru passport control at the first port where we retur…

A roadtrip that focused on Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, with stops in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick on the return trip. The final destination was Toronto, for a crazy meeting of Virtual Tourists!