SCHOONERS AND A BRIDGE TOWER

We took a sail on this boat, the Heron,

this morning. It was lots of fun, started out in deep fog and got sunny by the end. Never really enough wind to use sails and no motor, though.  We saw some seals sunning themselves on an island.

We also saw an unusual lighthouse, unusual by the fact that the house was closer to the water than the light tower. It turns out that's because they needed the lighthouse so desperately, that they built the house first so that someone could live there, and their job every night was to go up on the roof of their house and put a lantern up there. That went on for five years before they had enough funding to build the lighthouse. We had a lovely lunch of lobster rolls on board. 

After the sail, we headed for Bar Harbor. (Bah Hahbah. On the way, we stopped and went up the observation tower of the Waldo Hancock bridge,

the tallest observation tower on a bridge in the US. 

We had dinner tonight in Bar Harbor.   Wandered through the town and came back to my our hotel on the free shuttle bus, which is donated free by L.L.Bean (part of a fleet)