Jim & Nicole’s Travel

Today was our day for Schoodic! On our way there we stopped out at some little known places for fun

Sullivan Falls was our first stop just to see the area. It was just about two hours shy of low tide so the water was flowing out of the area right where at certain points of the day it’s a reversing falls. Pretty cool to look at though.

Then we took the trail up near Schoodic Point, not really that high and saw what the overlook was all about. It really wasn’t nearly as exciting as some of the views we’ve had but worth it nonetheless.

Then we went to another part of Schoodic Point where the dikes were filled with molten lava and formed these neat little areas where the lava filled in, pretty cool. You can see the black where it came up in the pictures along with some of the amazing views from that part that was our little walk out onto the rocks.

Then we stopped at a completely random trail on the side of the road with wild blueberry bushes along a nice little trail. We’ve heard a lot of locals come out here and pick them in season which is really cool. Obviously it’s a little past ripe blueberry season but there were a few really tiny ones left!

Then we decided to take one last trip out on Frenchman Bay and headed back downtown to Lulu’s lobster boat which we ALWAYS love! Captain John is always fun and we were proud of ourselves for remembering pretty much all the basics about lobster fishing Random thing though, of course we got stuck with the large senior citizen group and the lady next to us wanted the window on the side to be put up so that she wouldn’t get the wind and be cold. Look lady, it’s a BOAT, the sea breeze is amazing…don’t take a boat if you can’t take the breeze. We LOVE that breeze!

Captain John said if we were interested to ask him the best bang for your buck place to get lobster considering the prices lobsterman have been getting have been on the lower end and restaurants certainly haven’t been taking that into consideration and lowering the price for the consumer. Of course we asked for the heck of it and he told us his in town pick was West St. Cafe which is a place we already love so we were glad to hear that. His out of town pick was take-out at the Traveling Lobster (2 whole lobster DINNERS, not just the lobster, everything else included for $30…awesome) which is tempting to try since we love the local non-touristy stuff. We like steering away from the bus tours, full narrated trips/videos, that sort of thing. We’d much prefer to see the local perspective on things, especially since it is our future home

Tomorrow’s our last day in Bar Harbor and we’ve got a grand finale hike picked out, it should be fun!

We created this blog at first as a travel journal for ourselves and we enjoy sharing it with others however it’s frustrating when people can’t just write their name in the “name” box instead of something they randomly come up with. Feel free to comment on our blogs but PLEASE make sure you include your NAME in the name box and that your comments is a) a comment not a question, it’s not a discussion forum and b)regarding something we’ve written about, not an off-topic item.

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Vacation is a time for us to relax and explore new places as well as enjoy the places we love visiting. The blog was just our chance to document things for ourselves and also to give little reviews of local businesses for those that might be traveling to the same place. We like giving credit to the little known places AND the bigger more popular places when they do a great job at making our vacations/trips awesome!