Good Bye BarHarbor! Sadly we must move on!

Bryson found the mud holes!

Well sadly, we have to say good bye to Bar Harbor!  I put it on the list of places that are definitely a can't miss to anyone traveling this way!  As we were driving out of town, the smell of the local lobster pounds were in the air!  You see they use a wood fire to heat 55 gallon drums of salt water for cooking the lobsters. These pounds are scattered up and down the main highway leading into Acadia National Park right on the sides of the road.  We pushed back our departure date several times due to the beautiful scenery and quaint little towns full of jellies, jams, ice cream, fresh lobsters and the list goes on and on.  Time is ticking and we must get on our way!

Bay of Fundy is the next stop on our trip.  We pulled into our campground late in the evening around 7:30, so we setup and called it an early night.  The next morning, we traveled to the Hopewell Rocks about 2 km down the road!  The whole Kilometer thing takes some time getting used.  We walked down to the rocks which they call Flower Pots, because the trees grow out of the top of the rocks that are surrounded by water during high tide.  Once getting down on the sea floor we had a great time walking through the caves and looking at the beautiful scenery.  The kids had fun playing around chasing each other and trying to see how much mud Bryon would get into.  Well Bryson got pretty dirty, so we had him rinse off in the bay with Norman who was just as bad! "My poor truck" is all I can say about that. We noticed the water seemed to be moving back into the bay, so we decided to build a little marker out of stacked rocks and see how fast the tide was rising.  It took less than 30 seconds for the water to cover 6" of rocks and just to make sure we weren't seeing things we did it again making sure the rocks were not in the water to start with. Once again the tide swallowed up the rocks right before our eyes! From here we went up and cleaned off in the designated wash area. You see, the Bay of Fundy has a lot of clay on the bay floor.  So much that the water is stained red and there are even local artists who make pottery from this stuff.  It reminds me of good ol' Georgia red clay! After cleaning up, we headed out for some more exploring of the coast.  We found a scenic Bay of Fundy drive that runs along part of the coast. On this drive, we stumbled across a place called Cape Enrage which had a nice beach, so we decided to stay for awhile.  There is no sand just smoothly polished rocks that lead right down into the water.  We let the kids skip rocks and Norman even did some swimming in the cool water.