Trip North - Maine - Acadia Bar Island Hike

Gary says he is up to joining Tucson and me on 

the Bar Island Hike.  It is available for only a 3 hour window,

1.5 hours before and after low tide.

Low tide is 10:15 a.m. so we take the 8:28 bus to Town

It is a sunny but cool morning

 Tucson takes the time to smell the flowers

I look out to the water and think the water is still pretty high 

for a hike across to that Island

 Bar Harbor does a beautiful job with flowers all around town

 Almost there!

 

Relieved to see a sand bar ahead

 It's a pretty wide sand bar and tide is still going out.

 Don't recommend losing track of time if you park on the sand bar

 We reach the trail to a view point on the island

 See a couple of deer on the way

 2/10  of a mile to go

 Hopefully the final ascent

 Sucess!

 A view back to the sand bar

 We run into the Bar Harbor chapter of the Tucson Fan Club

 We head back and come across Milkweed plants with (hopefully) Monarch Butterfly caterpillars.

 Back to the sand bar.  The tide is just starting to come back in.  Those cars have an hour and a half to move.

 I stop and check out what is left of tidal pools

 Lots of barnacles

 We head back into town

 and wait for our bus back

 When we get back to the campground we see a Maine Dog Agility group 

has set up at the campground

 Tucson says can I play!?

Sorry Tucson doesn't start until tomorrow.  Maybe we can check it out in

the morning.

Trip North - Maine - Island Explorer

Didn't do much of yesterday after my 2 hour
venture into Bar Harbor and Gary has been after
me to start painting - so I decided to paint
the piece of Birch Bark I picked up at
Pemaqud Point - figured the Pemaquid Lighthouse
was an appropriate subject

Gary is feeling a little better this morning so I make an Itinerary

using the Island Explorer so he doesn't have to drive.

We leave after Lunch on the 12:20 No. 1 Oceanarium bus to the Village Green

in Bar Harbor.  Tucson says I got this!

We pick up the No. 3 Sand Beach Bus 

at the Village Green to go to Thunder Hole.

Gary disembarks

 It's just a short walk across the road to Thunder Hole

 High Tide is at 3:29 p.m.  We get here around 1:30.  It's not up to Thunder 

point yet.

We do get to spot a Seal

and the Scenery is great too

Here's looking at you Gary!

Time to pick up the No. 4 Loop bus to the Visitor's Center where we 

will pick up the No. 1 back to the Campgroud

Back on the Loop Road

The Island Explorer can be a wild ride!  It goes fast so getting shots to the side

are impossible and alot of the scenes are behind me before I can even aim my camera.

Got one!

 Pass by the Stables

 We get to the Visitor's Center our last stop before we connect

to our bus home.  I want to check for a hat pin.  

No problem only 52 steps up!

Lines to big and didn't want to miss the first bus back so

didn't get the pin.

Not a  bad afternoon.  Got Gary out into some fresh air and a

quick overview of the Park.  Hope he is feeling better in

the morning and he can join me on the one mile hike to Bar Island - only accessible 1.5 hours before and after low tide.