Spirit of Acadia

We did a bit of sightseeing around Bar Harbor, beginning at the harbor where we watched the fishermen aboard the Poseidon prepare bait bags for their lobster traps. We learned that last year was a record year for the fishing industry in Maine with 120,000,000 pounds of lobster being caught and sold at $4.00 per pound. Toured Acadia National Park with our tour guide, Mike, on Oli's Trolley. Mike shared so much history and information I can't come close to remembering all of it now. One very bit of information I found incredibly interesting was a family built a 100 room cottage here and loved to entertain. The dining room table would seat 100 for dinner, then be lowered into the floor where the servants would set the table again for dessert. While the table was gone the dining room was used as a ballroom. There were more important facts shared as well, such as the Wisconsin Glacier carved out the islands here. We had planned to have dinner at C-Ray Lobster pound, but we waited a bit too late, and found we were too late at the other lobster pounds nearby, so we returned to Fiddlehead Restaurant, where we had the lobster dinners Tuesday.