RHS'69
Fall Canadian Cruise - Day 8
Bar Harbor, Maine
Here's Wendy's Kabuki make up station. It is a carry bag that you hook up on the towel bar, unzip it and you have a full display of your skin care, hair stiffener, and war paint.
Half her make up is out of this bag and artfully displayed next to the sink. She has several of these travel stations. This happens to be her 2 weeks bag... or longer. You ought to see what she needs for a one month trip.
Face Fixer
A small town of 5,000, Bar Harbor is home to the largest parts of Acadia National Park.
The community was first settled by Europeans in 1763. In the late 1800's Bar Harbor started becoming the summer home for the rich and famous. Now it's a popular tourist destination particularly in the summer and autumn months because of nearby Acadia National Park.
Day 8 - Bar Harbor, Maine
Adventure, romance, the rock-bound coast and soaring granite cliffs - there is a special mystique to Bar Harbor.
Surrounded by Acadia National Park and located at the edge of the sea, Bar Harbor has welcomed visitors for over one hundred years.
Our mission today is to have a steamed lobster. In Bar Harbor, you can have a lobster swimming in the Atlantic yesterday and on your plate the next day.
The ship is getting ready tenders for us to go ashore.
The harbor is not deep enough for our ship.
Just landed.
Across the street is the dock that brings in the tourists and the catch of the day.
Lobster lunch at the West Side cafe!
It is one of the best places to go for clam chowder, fresh lobster and blueberry pie.
The prices are very reasonable too.
Three Lobsters - as fresh as you can get 'em.
How about this? That's why we're here.
This is the last crab and bay shrimp stuffed mushroom. An appetizer...
Gone but not to be forgotten.
This guy was swimming in the Atlantic yesterday and he's now on my plate with fries and cold slaw today.
Great blueberry pie and ice cream.
The entire lunch was $30 - worth coming from Hawaii to have.
The trees are slowly turning colors for Fall. Once it gets colder it'll really get started.
Right now it's 48 but feels much warmer.
Back at the dock area to catch the tender for the ship.
Basically the tender is a big lifeboat so there's not much to see inside - except the pretty lady.
Bar Harbor is getting ready for Halloween - including the witch stuck head first in the hedge.
Next stop, Beantown - Boston.
Autumn is arriving and on the mainland that means the leaves are starting to change color.
What better time for a cruise to check it out.
RHS'69 Reunion chair Vincent Yim and his wife Wendy are off cruising eastern Canada and U.S. to watch the leaves turn for Autumn.
