Mt. Desert Island 31 July 2007

We are enjoying the sights and sounds of Mt. Desert Island and Arcadia National Park. We will not be moving out of the harbor until the fog to subsides. The island has clear warm weather but out of the harbor the Atlantic Ocean is foggy. Weather reports look good for the next few days so we can start heading west and south. It is hard to beleive that it is August tomorrow!
Our plan is to head to Rockland tomorrow and be in Boothbay for the weekend and then head to Cape Cod on a straight overnight run Sunday or Monday weather permitting.
We are by the public library in Southwest Harbor, ME where they have good WiFi access. As we mentioned our boat is in a location with no cell access. We do get two tv stations from time to time and fortunately one of them is PBS so after dinner on the boat we catch up with the news and the PBS station.
We have be sight seeing extensively around the island and using the great bus service. We will try to include a few pictures of this area to get everyone caught up. This is a beautiful area.

Southwest Harbor

We discovered that the game of croket is alive and well at the Clermont Inn here at Southwest Harbor!

The other players watching the play intently.

A pond in Somesville near the harbor we are staying at.

Somes Harbor where we have been for a few days.

Somes Sound the only Fjord on the East Coast of the US. We are anchored at the head of the sound.

Mt. Desert Island as we are approching from the south coast.