Bar Harbor, ME

Actually doing this blog entry from the Bar Harbor Library. We managed to get to Ellsworth via the bus system with success and got a replacement phone. We got back to Bar Harbor around 2:30 and visited the campus of the College of the Atlantic a small private college that has a student body of 300 students total. They specialize in the arts and sciences. Lovely campus just out of town and on the water front. We saw their Natural History Museum and walked the grounds.

We are watching Hurricane Bill very carefully. It is due to be off the coast here sometime on the weekend. Forecasts put it off shore a couple of hundred miles, but I am sure we will see some affects of the storm if nothing other than a significant ocean swell working its way into the local bays.

One of our key entertainments in all the sea coast towns is the local libraries are having their late summer book sales. In Boothbay the library has its own permanent used book store with books on the porch for 10 cents a piece! Here in Bar Harbor we bought books at the Somesville Library and at least 3 times here at the main library. In fact there are more books for sale than I think he library has on the shelves.

One more day here. We plan on going to Jordan Lake up in the National Park and then head back to Penobscot Bay on Friday to stay over at Rockland Harbor and then go to Islesboro's Dark Harbor on Saturday if we can get on our mooring a day early.