Baa Haa Baa, Maine

As we leave Halifax heading for the US border crossing at Calais, Maine we find ourselves under a blanket of clouds as far as we can see in all directions.

 

 After strict questioning and entering the motorhome they decided to let us return to the good ole USA. 

 

View from Acadia National Park towards Bar Harbor and Bar Island.

Sand Beach

 

Thunder Hole

 

View from the top of Cadillac Mountain.  Cadillac Mountain at 1,530 feet is not only the park's highest peak, but it is also the tallest mountain on the Atlantic coast north of Brazil.

 

Sunset at our KOA Campground

 

Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound.

Family owned since 1956.

 

Outdoor cookers

 

 

 At low tide this sandbar is uncovered and you can walk from Bar Harbor to Bar Island.

 

 View from Bar Island Summit back to Bar Harbor.

 

Blue Hill

We had an excellent lunch here.  Fresh baked bread and goodies.

 



 

Wooden Boat School

 We have been surprised at how many wild apple trees we have seen here in the Northeast areas.

 

Still warm fresh baked blueberry pie delivered right to the campground.

 

Lobster Trivia

People love to eat lobster, as evidenced by the fact that Maine fishermen catch and sell between 55 and 60 million pounds of the tasty crustacean each year.

• It takes the average lobster from five to seven years to reach legal size.  In that time it will shed its shell between 25 and 27 times.
• A female lobster will bear between 6,000 and 100,000 eggs.  Fishery conservation laws in Maine prevent fishermen from keeping egg-bearing females.
• There are more than 7,000 licensed lobster fishermen in Maine.  Each year they put out more than 3 million traps.
• Prior to the ability to can food in the mid 1800's, lobsters were considered only good enough to use as fertilizer.  In fact, lobster collected after storms washed them ashore were only fed to the hired help.
• Lobsters are naturally a greenish, yellow color.  Only cooked lobster are red.  The most rare color is blue.  Only about one in 2 million lobsters is blue.
• The largest lobster ever caught was pulled up off Nova Scotia and weighed just over 44 pounds.  It was believed to be more than 100 years old.  Divers off the Maine coast have reported seeing lobsters much larger than that.
• The only legal way to catch lobsters is with a licensed trap.  The largest lobsters typically found in traps weigh 15 pounds, although ones that big must be thrown back for exceeding the maximum size.
• Despite the fact they more that 20,000 "eyes" lobsters have terrible vision and communicate by smell and sensing movement with their antenna