Trip North - Maine- Acadia SW Harbor

 Yesterday with Dorian passing through was a bust.  We drove into Bar Harbor to see an urgent care as Gary had developed a large red circle on his back .  Concerned with Lyme Disease I got him in to have it checked out.  Turned out to be Cellulitis so they prescribed antibiotics but also ran tests for Lyme.

It's a beautiful day today so we drive over to the

Southwest Harbor side of the Island

It is a lot less congested than the Bar Harbor side

 Our first stop is Echo Lake

 Very peaceful - no crowds at the Beach today.

Except some Loons

 Next is a very short hike to Carroll Homestead

 It represents a Coastal Maine Farm of the 1800's

 We arrive in Southwest Harbor a cute little town

 It's low tide in the Harbor

We continue on and drive over the natural sea wall

 I walk across the road for some pictures - Tucson

keeps an eye on me.

 Looking back to the Seawall

 All this rock is quartz

There is this lovely marsh pond on the side we parked on

 We stop at the Ship Harbor Trail as it looks to be quite short.  

Gary and Tucson wait in the truck.

 A pretty trail - but not so short.  It is a mile round trip

 

 My favorite stop - Bass Harbor Lighthouse

 I saw people below on the rocks so I found the trail

which lead to this stairmaster down

 a scramble out on some rocks

and a good shot of the lighthouse.  Had I had better shoes on I would

have ventured down closer to the water but hadn't planned

on any hiking today.

 I've worked up a big appetite for Lobster so we head

for the infamous Thurstons Lobster Pound

 We arrive only to find it is closed on Sunday!

We find this little place in Seal Cove.

 I get the Lobster Dinner

 and Steamers - Yum!  Gary is not a Lobster fan and that is all they offer 

here and his stomach is off from the antibiotics he is

 taking so he just watches me pig out.

 A short distance away is Seal Cove

 I see signs for Pretty Marsh so we turn down that road - it is pretty but

it ends at a picnic area with no view of a pretty marsh.

 Though I catch this shot driving by further up the road.

It was a nice day.  I feed Gary at home then we head to Town to gas up. We stop for ice-cream on the way home and then join neighbors 

for a campfire.  We weren't sure if we would be able to 

continue to Nova Scotia after Dorian took a direct hit on it

but finally heard from our friends that they were fine and should

have power back in a couple of days so we stick with our plan.

Nova Scotia or Bust tomorrow!