Foggy Northeast Harbor

As any of you who have read this blog know, Bob and I love Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island. We've been numerous times in the last year and a half and we'll continue to visit whenever we can. To us it is the perfect place - a reasonable drive away (we love having that much time to listen to podcasts of This American Life), a place we know well so we don't have to be tourists and we can just relax, plus it is just a beautiful place!

My mom turns 60 on Saturday and we're all meeting at the Parkers' house at Hancock Point tomorrow to spend the weekend together. Bob and I decided to take advantage of our April vacation and come up here a few days early. We got a great deal at The Bar Harbor Grand Hotel and we've been enjoying Bar Harbor since we arrived yesterday afternoon. However, luckily our plans aren't dependent on the weather! It has been rainy, foggy and windy the last two days, which put a bit of a damper on some of our plans.

We decided that we wanted to take a boat ride, but we are a couple of weeks too early for the whale watches and other tourist boat rides out of Bar Harbor. So we drove to Northeast Harbor this morning, hoping to catch the mailboat out to the Cranberry Islands.

It got foggier and foggier as we got closer to Northeast and this is what we saw when we arrived.

Needless to say, there were no boats for us to catch anywhere, so we'll have to wait until we are back in August. The harbor was really beautiful in the fog though!