June 27 - Loon and Whale

We had another exciting day, starting with an early morning hike. We drove to a pond on the south side of the park in search of loons. Well, they were there, and they put on quite a show for us!! There was a male and female and a baby. The little baby rides around on its mom's back (you can kind of see it in the photo with the two adults - the black blob on the right loon is the baby). If that wasn't cool enough, they decided it was time for baby's breakfast and we watched the loons dive down and bring the baby food for about 20 minutes. It was so amazing. We also stumbled upon (or it upon us) a weasel or mink carrying a rather large frog in its mouth - breakfast time for everyone! We had to leave, as our breakfast was calling us! We had an orange poppyseed scone, strawberry parfait, and we shared lemon souffle pancakes and crab strata (a crustless quiche). We skipped lunch we were so full! There is an island about .5 miles away, and during low tide, a rocky bar is exposed and you can walk over to the island and take a hike up a small mt. and get wonderful views of the town. The photo shows Bar Harbor, and our B&B is just in the closest trees. It's been great to be able to walk everywhere and not have to worry about getting in the car. We went back to the B&B to get ready for our whale watching tour. They took us 20 miles out to sea. We saw a few finback whales (as seen in the video), seals, birds. It was COLD too - in the 30's or 40's. We came back and got ready for dinner. We were having our evening appetizers with other guests, and all started chatting. We all got the idea to look at each other's rooms. That was fun! We concluded that although our room is the smallest (and least expensive), it was the best decorated, coziest, most unusual room We love it. We went to the Bar Harbor Inn for dinner and had a local cheese plate for an appetizer (we were VERY hungry at this point), Mike had lazy man's lobster (already taken out of the shell), and Sara had lobster pie. They even had a "palate cleaning" course between the appetizer and main meal - a blueberry sorbet. A perfect evening.