Day10 Bar Harbor

After our drive up Cadillac Mountain yesterday we returned to the motel...

and the guys tackled Reg's car to rotate his tires to try to solve a shaking issue. 

Then we decided not to fight the tourist crowd in downtown Bar Harbor.  Instead, we drove back up route 3 and found a nice little seaside restaurant.

 

Sally and Betty Dawn anticipating a fine dinner on the outside patio, overlooking the bay.

 

Tides here measure up to 14 feet.  Tide was out during our dinner so our view was this.


Then, this morning the day started very early... 

There is a tradition here that a must-do adventure is to go up Cadillac Mountain to watch the sunrise.

Cadillac Mountain is the highest point on the Atlantic Coast with unbeatable 360 degree views.  Some of our "crawlers" were up at 4am and on their way up the road.   Charlie, Vern, Jim, Missy and Al among them.

The reward for their effort was spectacular.

 

 

Missy and Bob at sunrise, along with about a thousand other people.

 

 

And, from ground level sunrise was almost as beautiful in this photo provided by Colette Clark.

 

Bruce Reynolds and Jim Clark set up Bloody Mary's and pastries for the gang's return and the other crawlers at 8am in the motel parking lot.  Flat Bill and Flat Ellen joined us.

Bob McKenna, Charlie Miller and Reg Hahn with merry Mary's.

After the Bloody Mary's we walked to the downtown area to experience the gift shops etc. 

Betty Dawn, Bruce, Sally and Reg take a break from the walk.

Horse drawn carriage rides around town looked like fun.

We had an early lunch at the same restaurant where we dined on our 2007 Pub Crawl.

The view from the veranda of the restaurant. 

Another part of the crawlers group planned to go on a whale watching cruise, and ate lunch a bit later at ...

Tesla's.  They said it was so good they made reservations for dinner. 

 

The whale watching cruise was more about the sights of the sea shore from the water, and seeing the other boats, yachts, seaside homes and geographical features of the shore.  A good time.

Here's a close up of that four masted ship we saw from the restaurant.

These people have a multi million dollar view.

The whale watchers, except for Pat who took the photo.

Another million dollar view.... or is this the lighthouse? 

  

Flat Bill and Flat Ellen were on the cruise too.

 

 

And the Buckley's proved that water is romantic... or cold, one or the other.

 

Back to the motel it was neat to see all of the Morgans parked in one location. 

I found a shop that would help me change the rear differential fluid in my car, hopefully to eliminate the limited slip differential click I was experiencing. 

 

Some of the pub crawlers ventured off to dinner at Tesla's again.... Lobster Dinner for $18.95. Nice.

 

 

All in all, a mixed and varied day but much fun for everyone.