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Post by hchoops on Feb 2, 2021 16:57:19 GMT -5
Bar Harbor in the summer is crazy with tourist boats dropping a few thousand off most days.
Southwest Harbor is much better
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 2, 2021 20:36:44 GMT -5
Been there...done that. (Not in the winter, of course). We spent many summers on Star Island and would swing up along the coast after our week on the Island. Great lobster rolls and lobster bakes along with some truly beautiful scenery. My HC roommate was also from Kennebunkport, Maine. (He told folks he was from Kennebunk because it believed that, as a larger city, folks were more likely to know where he was from.  Get out of here, I thought I would never meet anyone else who had spent a week on Star Island in the Isle of Shoals. Pleasant memories. At least in 1979 the island was owned 60% by the United Church of Christ and 40% by the Unitarian Universalists and UCC had six one week conferences and UU four each summer. I had lost someone the year before and actually saw a wild rose growing through a stone wall to reach the sun on the other side like you see on a Hallmark sympathy card. NH and Maine coast is great. |
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Post by HC92 on Feb 2, 2021 20:43:10 GMT -5
My wife and I did a Maine Coast tour when we were young and childless. Started in Bar Harbor and worked our way south over the course of 10 days. Awesome trip. Now we go to soccer games.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Feb 2, 2021 20:58:02 GMT -5
Anyone remember Harbor Bars? They are an ice cream sandwich made with chocolate chip cookies that you find in Bar Harbor?
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 2, 2021 21:01:27 GMT -5
Anyone remember Harbor Bars? They are an ice cream sandwich made with chocolate chip cookies that you find in Bar Harbor? |
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 2, 2021 21:09:58 GMT -5
No, but I did take the ferry from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. When the boat reached international waters the wall opened up and there was a casino. One of the few times I quit while ahead because when the boat exited international waters the casino closed as fast as it opened. That was September of 1975 and the Red Sox were in a pennant race. To my surprise the Red Sox flagship radio station, WHDH 85O AM at the time came in clear as a bell over the water in NS and everyone was a Sox fan into the pennant race.
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Feb 2, 2021 22:29:34 GMT -5
For decades Portland had the Prince of Fundy or another huge ferry that made the 200 mile trip to Yarmouth NS every day--10 hours in transit and a 2 hour turnaround at each end. The hold filled with semi--trucks for whom the ferry fee was less than the cost of driving the 870 miles. The ferry had the same casino setup, of course. Bar Harbor for years had, and may still have, "The Cat" a catamaran ferry that I think hit something like 50 knots in its shorter crossing.
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Post by longsuffering on Feb 2, 2021 22:53:52 GMT -5
I was in Nova Scotia with a friend whose father had counseled us to never call anyone in N.S. a "herring choker" because it was an ethnic slur equivalent to the "N" word and could cause us to get punched out.
First night we go into a Canadian Legion Hall and start drinking Moosehead drafts for twenty cents and whispering to each other "don't say herring choker". Eventually we got shut off and my friend blurts out "You blanking Herring Chokers!". Everybody breaks out laughing. Fortunately it was such an antiquated phrase people thought it was funny.
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Post by timholycross on Feb 3, 2021 11:47:19 GMT -5
For decades Portland had the Prince of Fundy or another huge ferry that made the 200 mile trip to Yarmouth NS every day--10 hours in transit and a 2 hour turnaround at each end. The hold filled with semi--trucks for whom the ferry fee was less than the cost of driving the 870 miles. The ferry had the same casino setup, of course. Bar Harbor for years had, and may still have, "The Cat" a catamaran ferry that I think hit something like 50 knots in its shorter crossing. Looks like the Bah Hahbah ferry still runs. So you have to drive 175 more miles, which means you still save 700 miles of driving. Well worth it and one gets to spend a little time in BH or Acadia National Park, which is a good fringe benefit. Fuzzy whether or not there is still one from Portland. |
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