Cambridge Hotel

We are staying in a hotel in Cambridge looking out at Boston and the Charles River.  I tried to take a picture to show you the spectacular hotel room view, fro the 21st floor, but it just looked like blobs of light.  We are right beside MIT, and directly across water from the area of Boston my parents used to live in.  We'll be taking the T into Boston tomorrow.  More on that soon!

Hiking Gorham Mt.

I had a slow lazy morning with yummy treats from the Morning Glory Bakery.  We avoided the hot 80 degree high-noon heat.  Haha.  So then we hiked around 3:00.  It was a good 2 mile hike with lots of rocks to climb up.  There was a nice breeze most of the way up and more so near the top.  You could see sand beach.  But the rest of the ocean was hard to see because of the fog like you will see in the video.

Enjoy the video.

And a photo of the most enjoyed view.

Kayaking at Great Long Pond

Kayaking was amazing.  We had a solid two and a half hours of fun paddling around the great long pond.  The pond was huge, very long, and I didn't even see all of it.  We rented two tandem kayaks to explore in.  Great views here too, nice scenery, mountains and trees in background.  See photo for a shot I took >

                                 This is the amazing view I got kayaking today!

Extreme Tide Change

This morning when we walked across the sand bar that connects Bar Harbor to Bar Island at low tide, I noticed how much the tides change.  The difference between high tide and low tide average 10ft and sometimes as much as 12ft as you can see in the two pictures.

Look at both of these pictures.  Top is at low tide and bottom is at high tide.

This is the sand bar that gives Bar Harbor it's name.

Low tide.  At low tide many people walk, and drive to Bar Island across the water.

High tide.  Taken in the same spot seven hours later.  Now that's a lot of water!

Whale Watching

Today we went whale watching.  It was so much fun.  A great day here for it too.  This was my first time ever going whale watching.  It took a while until we spotted a whale but it was awesome when we did.  The kind of whale we saw was a humpback.  The naturalist tour guide had seen him before and was calling him Churn, because of a mark on his tail.  We followed him for a while, and came across another humpback whale.  It was so much fun.  If you are ever in Bar Harbor you must go whale watching!

Here is a short video of the whale we saw:

Bar Harbor FireWorks

The fireworks were amazing.  The show lasted for a solid 30 minutes.  Tons of people sat on the hill to get a great view.  We came half an hour before the show started and it was hard to find a spot.  It was nice that they turned off the street lights on the hill and on the pier so it was in complete darkness.  Also, we were only about 75 yards away from where they were being shot off.

There were so many people sitting on the hill looking out at the harbor.  I took this 30 minutes before the show started.  And lots more people kept coming! 




I know fireworks are fireworks and everyone has seen them, and know you know what they look like, but here are a few Bar Harbor fireworks shots I took last night.