September 28, 2016 – exploring Acadia NP

The free Acadia shuttle picked us up at the campground where we took it to the visitor’s center then onto Bar Harbor.  At Bar Harbor, we took the 4-mast schooner, the Margaret Todd, on a 2-hour ranger led tour of the bay and learned things about lobster fishing and how the park was created which we might not have found out on our own.

Cathy and Maarten, our friends from the Bay Area who moved to Reno (see the June 30 journal entry), were in Bar Harbor so we met them for dinner at a great restaurant in town.  After dinner they drove us back to our campground instead of waiting for the shuttle bus.  Very nice visit and very nice to get back quickly since we were both wiped from the day.