We woke up this morning and said good bye to the Wonder View Inn and headed to the other side of the island where there is more to Acadia National Park.
Bass Harbor Island. This one is a Coast Guard home (please don't ring the doorbell) but you can walk and climb around the rocks.
This lighthouse is one the Maine's National Park state quarter.
Aren't we cute!
We left Mount Desert and headed back south (away from Down East, whatever that means) and stopped at the world's largest bridge observation deck. We rode the elevator up and saw the pretty views.
Below the bridge is Fort Knox (not that one, the Maine one) which never saw fighting but was used for a long time for various things. We wandered around for a bit. Then we continued our drive back to Portland, stopping at a cafe for lunch and ice cream at the Good Kettle in some small town! Finally! Maine LOVES its ice cream and we never really felt like getting it, but this was good. Another thing Maine loves is gold lettering on signs and calling things Wicked Good and little pretty churches and lobster and blueberries, the stereotypes are true.
Back in Portland, we went back to our LQ and then to the other port part of town for a stroll along the harbor and for dinner at a fast food pizza restaurant-I think Amato's- a friend who's family lives here recommends. We finally got a Whoopie Pie.
This evening was spent on our phones and watching tv in the hotel room because it was dark and we didn't know what else to do.
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