Bye, Bye Narrows Too After a Week

So today is our last day of our week stay at Narrows Too in Trenton, ME near Acadia National Park.  We have seen the price of campgrounds increase unbelievably this year, at a rate well exceeding inflation even with it as high as it is.  And now we have experienced another park using "dynamic pricing".  Everyone is somewhat familiar with this as it applies to airline tickets and even hotel rooms, if you reserve way in advance you get a cheaper price, and then as it gets closer and closer to the departure date and the planes fill up, the price goes up and up.  Well, it seems that now campgrounds are getting in on this deal.  We stayed at Narrows Too earlier in the year on an exceptional waterfront site that we splurged on at $110/night and had made our reservation way early, we found out the price of the same site when we checked before our arrival here was at $198/night!  Even the run of the mill pull through we stayed on this week was over $100/night even with the weekly rate.  But after our fiasco we needed a place to stay.

The weather was stellar the whole week, so we got quite a few things done.  Jan was able to get her hair cut:-)   This is a surprisingly big challenge when full timing, figuring out first of all where to get it done and then working out an acceptable schedule to get it done at acceptable times, but she is quite good at it after all these years.

We saw a very unique unit on one of our walks around the campground.  I was able to find the owner and talked to him about it, and yes, if you look close, the way he put it, was his twin drives the trailer and he drives the coach:-)  He told us that a small company in LA made around 10 or so of these units, he painted it, put murals on it, even a Prevost badge to match his own Prevost coach.  It was made in 1997.  I thought it was pretty cool, you can park it anywhere, you don't have to jack up the front to get it on and off, and there is no tongue weight, much like us towing our truck 4 wheels down.  Oh yeah and it's a stacker as well, so 2 levels inside.

The only difference this time was we had to take a walk to see the view at low tide of Cadillac Mountain.

And Jan tripped over this guy on a walk which prompted us to try and figure out what kind of snake it was, turned out to be a Brown snake, duh, basically a garter snake, and another thing we found out to our amazement is there are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

We drove over to Tracey's Seafood that I had mentioned before in Sullivan where we had such a good lunch, all of 20 miles away only to find out they weren't sure if they were going to open or not due to some trouble with the staff.  We were sorely disappointed and with nothing else in the general area came back and ate lunch in.  And that made us decide to go back the next day to Bagaduce Lunch again, we did and had another wonderful lunch of haddock, scallops, and onion rings, delish!

And quite the view to eat it.

After eating we decided to take a ride over to Castine, a place we had somehow never visited before, home of Maine Maritime Academy.  It is a beautiful town and incredible harbor with historical homes and buildings, even a fort, and immersed in history.  Very interesting.

We were gawking so much, we never took pictures except this one of part of the harbor.  Yeah, we get a failing grade on this one:-)

As our time grew short we wanted to go hike around Jordan Pond again, and this time we left even earlier than before as we did not want to deal with a bunch of people or have trouble finding parking, yes it is a popular place and hike.  So we left at 0530am and started our hike by 6am, and so, so worth it, wonderful!

Sunrise on the way there

Looking down at Bar Harbor

Happy hikers at the halfway point at 7am

We even saw and heard the loons and watched a beaver slap the water when couple of kayakers got too close to their hut.  He slapped and slapped his tail to get them away from their home.  We had never seen them do that before.  What a gorgeous day.

Goodbye Jordan Pond and the Bubbles

So we saw a display sign on the way back and after reading it we were so thankful for climate change and especially global warming so that we could be able to experience this area and hike this hike, turns out that during the ice age, before global warming (and before people) the ice in this area was over one mile thick!

On the way back we stopped into Northeast Harbor and had a cup of coffee overlooking this picture perfect cove.

So as we move again tomorrow we will be making our way west and south eventually back to Scarborough near Portland again until we leave Maine and head back south.  We've still got a lot of things we are looking forward to and know we'll be here until the end of September but we are already hating to leave:-)