Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, and the coast of Maine

It seems I am updating the blog just when we are leaving our campsite.  And right now we are sitting in the rain waiting until our arbitrary departure time of 10am to head down the coast from here in Trenton, right next to Acadia National Park to Boothbay Harbor where we will be for a week over the Labor Day weekend.  We are at Narrows Too, the same campground we used to go to over Labor Day weekends with Vern and Viv and Ray and April, you wouldn't recognize it now!  It is huge and totally renovated and the prices reflect it.

We were only here for 3 nights, but Jan and Karen managed to get their hair done, one pleased and one not :-(  But we managed to get into the park, eat some fried clams, haddock fish and chips, clam and seafood chowder, lobster stew, and famous popovers at the Jordan Pond House.

One of the highlights of previous trips were the popovers at the Jordan Pond House in Acadia.  It is a park run restaurant that has indoor and outdoor seating now in the grassy lawn overlooking Jordan Pond and the Bubbles, two round topped mountains.  It is peaceful and beautiful, so with our short time here we decided to eat lunch there rather than try to go just for the popovers.  The waiter told us they make about 4000 popovers a day, one is included with every meal, and of course you can just order popovers.  They are served warm from the oven with local butter and homemade strawberry preserves, and to say they are good is an understatement!

The "Bubbles"

Jordan Pond

Outdoor seating

The whole setting

Lunch was delicious with the girls getting seafood chowder and me getting lobster stew, and best of all each came with 2 popovers!

Excellent seafood chowder

Digging into the popovers

Yum yum

Then we drove up to the top of Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the coast at 1528'.  It was a bit hazy, but beautiful nonetheless.

Bar Harbor

Out to sea

Beautiful view

Another angle

Then we continued around the Park Loop reveling in the beauty of the rugged Maine coast.

Rocky coast

Tide coming in

Private secluded beach

The next day was taken up with hair dos, LL Bean outlet, and groceries, but we still managed a good lunch in downtown Bar Harbor.  We lucked out and had two gorgeous days so today we pay by driving in the rain to Boothbay Harbor.  I'll bet it will still be beautiful.