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.

Bar Harbor Updates

We've been having so much fun it's hard finding time to write these posts.  I'm going to try to somewhat catch up for yesterday when I did not post because of tiredness.


Here's the trip so far:


Day 1:
Yesterday Morning

We stopped for an early breakfast at Purple Cow about 90 miles from Bar Harbor.

The Purple Cow sign outside and Purple Cow picture directly inside.

They had great pancakes.  Except they were hard to finish because they were so big.  We just had to take a picture because they look unbelievable (even more so then the picture)!

They each were about as big as a plate!   

Here is the picture of the huge pancakes.

Midday
We had time to spend before we could go to our rental house, so we decided to go to Acadia National Park (5 minute drive from Bar Harbor) and walk down to the well known Thunder Hole.
I researched geocaches nearby and with the GPS tried to hopefully find a geocache.  This was not easy.  Loads of boulders everywhere and lots of places to look.






Here was the view of part of the walk down to Thunder Hole.






Day 2:
Morning-Evening

We took a shuttle from Bar Harbor to Jordan Pond and went hiking on a trail around the pond which was about 3.5 miles.  The water was very clear and you could see the rocks on the bottom for a good distance.

Picture during our hike.  We're about half way around Jordan Pond.
(My mom took this same photo of us six years ago when we last visited.)










Fireworks later tonight over the beautiful harbor.  I will try to post a picture and more about this tomorrow.

The Bar Harbor Vacation Begins

I'm sorry, I'm suffering from extreme lack of sleep.  So this is all I'm posting today.  We're off for a nightly walk, hoping to find a geocache near the piers of bar harbor,  and then to bed for a good nights sleep.  I will certainly post more tomorrow, also with pictures.

Today I Was Mr. LawnBoy

                                                   Did I do a nice job on the lawn today?  Today I had to mow the lawn before we leave for vacation tomorrow.  Notice the crisscross pattern and naturally green grass.  Now the lawn will look good for my last day of the coffee stand this year.

I even tried to make a straight edge along our driveway.

Geocaching

Have you ever heard about geocaching?  Maybe you have but don't know much about it.  I didn't know anything about it until one of my friendly customers and I were talking about it this morning at the Coffee Stand.  Geocaching is kind of like a treasure hunt that you can use a GPS to get you near a hidden geocach.  Geocaching is a fun thing do do if you are hiking or exploring outdoors, and are looking for something to do.  You enter the coordinates of geocaches to locate yourself near the treasure and then you look for it.  There is sometimes a log book to sign saying when you found it, and you can take something from the geocach, but make sure to leave something of equal or greater value so others will still have something to find.  If you ever find one and look at it make sure to put it back where you found it.  Check out the website where you can get coordinates for geocaches and tell others you found it.  They have a cool video with more info. about geocaching and what to do.  Link is below.  Hope you enjoy>

http://www.geocaching.com/