And welcomed we were! They had printed signs to greet us, including one being held by a bear!
Win and Lori's friends, Jim and Pattie are a wealth of information about the area. And Win took the opportunity to make a nice donation.
(He did not expect the sound it would make as a result!)They make some calls and a reporter shows up and we are interviewed by Abby Curtis of the Bangor Daily News!
Photos taken and off we drive for Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. Bar Harbor is busy, there's a huge cruise ship at port! 
We park the car on the street across from 'Oli's Trollies', and let her do her thing. 
We enjoy a walk to the pier and around town. We meet Larry a street puppet, quite a character. Larry is purple with blue hair. Oli asked him if he enjoyed blueberries? Larry said why yes! We enjoyed blueberries in ice cream, yummy. When we return to the time machine, a crowd of restaurant workers are lined up, taking photos, making donations and generally overlooking the scene from their nearby deck. We get directions from them, then drive through Acadia National Park. Finding the entrance, we decide to buy an annual pass for national parks since we'll be checking out several, later on, out west. The fresh air is intoxicating! We take a hike down to sea anemone cave that can only be seen at low tide, because at high tide its filled with water. 
No critters in the tidal pools. Tide is coming in and the sea gulls have had all day to dine on the captive lunch. We continue on around the island on a one way loop, stopping for some photos at a scenic overlook at sunset. Really beautiful. Then off to find a place to rest. We find a cute cluster of cabin/cottages that we saw on the drive in, and rest we do!
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