Bar Harbor, ME

Beautiful Bar Harbor may be the most quaint city along the east coast. The port is shallow, necessitating being tendered to shore. We didn’t go early because the people who sign up for shore excursions go first. We didn’t but will tomorrow. We boarded the tender (one of the life boats)near noon and walked around the shore on a lovely gravel path that showed the rugged coastline of Maine. The weather was much warmer than the ship’s thermometer showed. The temperatures are trailed across our TV screen each day but are rarely reliable as today. The hotels along the path were large, elegant ones but also very old and weathered. We came back up the main street which was not unlike the Main street in
Waynesville but longer. Many people go there in the summer, increasing the population by 10. We walked down the street looking for a way to go to an Oceanarium where we had visited many years ago. We went to a bank to ask and were met by an elderly pastor’s wife who walked us to a bus stop where we learned it would take more time than we had. She even offered to drive us several miles to expedite our trip. It would have still taken too long. Instead we walked around looking for a restaurant where Evelyn could have a whole lobster dinner. We found one but were surprised at how inexpensive lobster is at lunch time. Hers with 2 sides was 10.99, and there were many other restaurants offering similar deals. We chose “Chowdas” where the waitress even gave us a small taste of their blueberry crisp. It was around 3 by now but we wanted to do something else so we walked back to the harbor where we visited the whale museum. It was interesting but not so much as the one in the Falkland Islands. We returned to the ship and relaxed by taking a nap. We went to dinner and tried to catch some of the entertainment afterward. We got separated and went to different sides of the Spinnaker lounge where a couple did Neil Diamond songs. Evelyn returned to the cabin, but I went to watch the black couple in the atrium. The women has more energy than almost any performer I have ever seen. She never took a break between songs during her hour and a half show. What a performer!