Day 6 - Our last full day in Maine

Started out the day driving to the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse - it is beautiful and one of the most photographed lighthouses in Maine. I enjoyed taking pictures of it. The kids enjoyed climbing around on the rocks.


Somewhere there I lost my new lens cap, AND the gizmo that was supposed to keep me from losing it. (Rolling my eyes.....)

There was a large fog bank just barely offshore, and we could see boats going by, but just barely.


Next we drove to a place called Seawall, a naturally formed sea wall of fist-sized rocks. Had a picnic lunch there - shared a table with a French Canadian family. (We couldn't understand a word they said!)

Tried once again to visit the top of Cadillac Mountain, it was worse! The kids had fallen asleep in the car, so we didn't even wake them, just drove back down. Neither Kyra or Callie would believe that we'd gone up there.

Went into Bar Harbor, shopped some more, bought Mom her birthday present, and ate at a restaurant in downtown Bar Harbor. They had the best clam chowder I ate the whole trip. Yummmmm.

That evening I took Kyra & Callie out to sail on the Margaret Todd:




It is a large sailing boat, the only four-masted ship in Maine. We took a two hour sunset cruise. It was very windy (great for sailing!) and there was a fog bank out over the Atlantic, so we couldn't sail out that way and stayed in Frenchman's Bay. Kyra even got to help raise the sails!


We had to take this picture to show Brynn that even big ships can have fire hydrants! (Brynn and Darrin returned to sand beach while we were on the ship. They had the place to themselves, found the purple pail we'd seen at Thunder Hole washed ashore, and made sandcastles, played in the waves, and wrote "Brynn and Dad's Beach" in the sand.)