Coastal Cuties

So many coastal towns, I lost count... Bar Harbor, Bucksport, Penobscot, Searsport, Belfast, each one has its own unique charm. Of course everyone has heard of Bar Harbor, but this one was my least favorite...it was charming..no doubt..but soooo many people, we could not even find a place to park so we could walk around. We had just come off Cadillac Mountain, in Acadia National Park, so we were hungry and looking for a place to have lunch, no luck in Bar Harbor, so onward we went. We ended up in a super cute little town called Mount Desert. The rain was letting up a bit and the fog was rolling in, it was magical! 

Belfast was my favorite and the place that our good friends Carl and Carly Zaniboni call home. They have a house just outside of Belfast, in Merrill. It was awesome, just what you would think a cabin in the woods should look like..It was so cute🏡

To get to Belfast you have to cross the Penobscot Narrows Bridge, this is a cable stayed bridge that crosses the Penobscot River, it is 2,120 ft long and it is the first observation bridge tower in the US and at 420 ft tall that makes it the tallest public bridge observatory in the world...it was so cool.. you can ride a elevator to the top and when you get there you can see Cadillac Mountain in (Acadia National Park).

Next to the bridge is Fort Knoxx, (not the money one)...rats..

This fort was named after Major Henry Knoxx, Americas first Secretary of War! 

Belfast also has The Blue Alpaca, there you can pet the Alpaca, they recently had a baby and boy was he cute! Just the right size to fit into Esprit....really

In  Demariscotta Me. we jump on a boat and sailed to Monheagan Island to see the wild puffin... we only saw about a dozen or so puffin, but the sail was wonderful and a puffin expert from project puffin sailed with us and told us a lot about puffins. Project Puffin is an effort originated by Dr. Stephen Kriess, he wanted to restore the puffin to the islands in the Gulf of Maine, and between 1973 and 1986, young puffins were transplanted from Great Island to Eastern Egg Rock and they successfully fledged. The  total population has reached 104 pairs in 2012, so it has been a success. It was so cool to see them in the wild!