Day 6...Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine

Today we awoke to the sound of rain. I knew I should've never taken that rainsuit off! We decided to stay in for a while since it was supposed to stop around 10 am. I whet to open the back window in our room and was surprised to see a deer standing right there! And it did not run away when it heard me. They say the deer here on the island are very tame since there is no hunting allowed here. The deer did provide some entertainment while we waited out the rain.
The rain stopped around 10:30, but the weather still looked threatening, so we geared up and headed out to ride the Park Look Road in Acadia National Park around 11am.
As we entered the park, we could immediately tell that it had to be gorgeous! We just could'nt see two car lenghs in front of us for all the fog and mist. We tried to go up Cadillac Mountain, but really there was no view at all up there because of the fog. The futher we got into the park, the heavier the fog got. We got a few glimpses of some great rocks with the waves crashing in on them, but could only imagine how beautiful it would be with sunshine! The picture below shows what kind of views we saw this morning.
After driving the Park Loop Road, we headed back to our room to take off rain gear, then downtown for some shopping. The weather now was heavy clouds, but not raining. We arrived downtown and decided to just have a snack to tide us over till we got a real meal. It was already almost 2pm so we had some clam chowder (aka clam chowda) from a little corner stand and sat down by the water to eat. Then we were off to do some shopping. Well, between riding in the cool mist this morning and all the shopping this afternoon, we had finally worked up an appetite. We decided that we would try the West Street Cafe/Seaside Gill again. This time Bruce tried the fried Haddock and I tried the crabcakes. MMMM....Food was great again! It was now almost 6pm and the weather kept looking bettter, so we decided to go back through the park again to see if the visibility had improved and try to get some better pictures.
This time through was SO much better! It was warmer, but better yet, very little fog! We saw all kinds of things that we didn't even know were there this morning. We made stops this time at Sand Beach (pictured below), Thunder Hole, and other scenic overlooks.

After a great evening ride though the park, we headed back downtown for some ice cream, then it was back to the hotel for the night.

Not too many miles today....only 85 toay!!!