We couldn't resist taking a photo of the food just before it was served. What an incredible way to cook everything together. The meal began with all the mussels you could eat. This was followed by a dinner of lobster, corn, red potatoes, coleslaw, bread and hardboiled eggs. Why an egg you ask - long ago, they would put an egg in with the lobster and when the egg was hardboiled then the lobster was done. As if that wasn't enough food, we were then served blueberry cake!

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Here is Al getting his fill of mussels.

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Al decided to attack his corn before going at the lobster. The corn here is a very sweet peaches and cream variety. Tryna had to be satisfied with halibut instead of lobster since she is allergic to all shellfish. It was good but how she wishes she could have just one lobster!

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We're beginning to see lots of change in the color of the trees. It's been exciting watching more and more trees change everyday. We're afraid that these photos don't really show the dramatic reds and yellows but we're trying our best.

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According to the sign, the lighthouse here at Bass Harbor is the most photographed light in Maine. It looks beautiful with the rugged coastline below it. It was a bit of a hike down to see the light from this vantage point, but was well worth it.

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Acadia National Park has the main part near Bar Harbor and then several other distant parts. We visited a section about 35 miles away called Schoodic Point and once again found total beauty. This is a neat little inlet at the beginning of the peninsula. We were thrilled to spot huge flocks of flickers here - they are a fairly large woodpecker type bird with yellow underwings, speckled on the top and are ant eaters. The ranger told us they were just passing through.

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When we arrived at the tip of the peninsula we found shelves of granite with lines of black rock through them. The sign explained that these sections were called black dikes and are actually basalt which came up and filled the cracks in the granite causing the black lines.

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We knew there were wild blueberries growing in this area but never expected to find them when we hiked up to the summit of Schoodic Head.

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On our way back to camp we accidentally found the tidal falls in Frenchmans Bay. This is an area influenced by the tides where water rushes through a narrow section of the bay over rocks and as a result causes sort of a waterfall. This occurs twice a day when the tide is going from low to high. In St. John they called this phenomenon the reversing falls.

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As we were leaving Maine heading for New Hampshire and the White Mountains, Tryna couldn't resist catching the Maine colors one more time. As we went by the Acadia Zoo one last time, Tryna was excited to see a moose. We had seen buffalo there before but this was the first moose. Does this one count on the hunt for moose?

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