Bass Harbor Head Light (pictorial)

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I welcome you back to Southwest Harbor. We were here a few days ago with the Ward’s. We ate at Beal’s Restaurant. If you squint hard enough you can see it at the left side of the picture above. Below is the other side of the harbor.

Just a local church, but very unique. Below, I think it’s low tide.


Maine has seventy lighthouses that dot its coastline and this is one of them. Like all the lighthouses in the US they fall under the auspices of the US Coast Guard.

This is the lighthouse. I know, I was expecting it to be six stories high and very awe inspiring, but when your over sixty feet above sea level you don’t have to build a building that tall.

At first I thought this was the beginning and the end of this venue, until Carla spotted tourists standing by the water. We had to find out how they got there.


These pictures are for Carla, she enjoys seeing flowers in their natural habitat. We have no idea what these are or what they are caller.


Carla’s found the path to the water…


Now that’s the life. a person or family that has made few mistakes in their lives. Now, instead of climbing a narrow stairway inside a lighthouse to the top, like the Jupiter Lighthouse, we cautiously walk downward.

Yea!  like I was really looking forward to rock climbing.

We’re both a little pooped but we made it down here without incident.


What an awesome trawler. A dream I had a long time ago until I realized only the one-percent can live that lifestyle, but I’m still content being part of the lower ninety-nine percent.
 
Yea, dream on!
Below, just a lobster boat. Asked Carla if the yearning for a lobster was still on her mind, she answered no. After two lobster dinners were both satisfied. Could go for a good swordfish dinner, we’ll work on it.

Whoever discovered or invented cropping should be given a medal. Below…This guy was an encyclopedia on global warming, ice age and rising oceans. What I did not realize was that the oceans will rise as the glaciers melt, from the bottom up. but what will really make the waters rise is the heating of the oceans. Cold temps will cause the water to constrict and form ice. Warmer temps cause the waters to expand and swell up, thus giving the appearance of a whole lot of extra water but in reality over decades its mostly to same water expanding. Either way were all going to get wet.

That’s the end of the climate warming lesson for today, it’s time to head home. One our way down here the car was reading 96 degrees, but I doubt if it’s any higher than 85 on the coast right here. This may look like a walk in the park for most of you but for me it was a small challenge.


Now how high is high tide at times? The water marks on the rocks to the left of the picture indicate the water reaches up to the metal pier going out from the shore, a good fifteen-feet.

There this is a better picture (below) of high the tide will go.

This is downtown Southwest Port. Carla, once again engrossed by flowers.


It’s hard for us to pass up an ice cream shop, but whoa what a crazy business they have. Low on space, you find people eating in every nook they can squeeze a chair and table in. Their menu was enticing. Carla ended us having a tune melt, and I couldn’t pass up the club sandwich. But came in super sized. Mine was about four-inches thick. We were so full we took a pass on the ice cream.


These cars are parked on the side of the road so their occupants can hike the trails of the Arcadia National Park. I’m exhausted just thinking about doing a hike.

It’s around 2 PM and were still about twenty minutes from home. Tonight we plan to have a fire, cookout and an outdoor picnic. See the 1-15 Journal for that story.

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