Come Visit our B & B (Please call first!)

Few things give us more pleasure than having good friends stay with us at our home here on the Maine coast. We love sharing the beauty of Acadia National Park. This past week, our good friends Judi and John, came for a visit and we had a ball! Lots and lots of rain was predicted but we're apparently so good at this "B & B" thang, that we were able to enjoy all of the things we'd planned without getting more than a drop or two of rain on us. If you've been following our horrendous summer weather system here in New England, you'll agree that we accomplished quite a feat!

Of course, we ate lots of seafood --- lobster, salmon, lobster, clams, lobster, scallops, and . . . um . . .oh, yeah, LOBSTAH! We also enjoyed fruit including LOTS of wild blueberries (we picked them ourselves and made some yummy pancakes with real maple syrup), brownies a la mode and macaroons from the Quietside Cafe (B.E.S.T. macaroons ever) in Southwest Harbor, and ice cream "flights" from our new FAVORITE ice cream/sorbet shop, Mt. Desert Ice Cream (sorry that they don't have a website but they DO have two locations in Bar Harbor -- most inventive flavors of sorbet and ice cream EVER -- including blueberry basil, lemon-lemon mint, orange tarragon, lime cucumber, Mexican chocolate, and salted caramel -- WOW!).



We hiked Homans Path -- a recently recovered hiking trail that is just charming and usually empty because it's not listed in any of the current trail guides for Acadia National Park. Here are Judi and John in a really cool part of the trail.





We also hiked up to Thuya Gardens with views of Northeast Harbor along the way. Even with the fog, it was beautiful.



We enjoyed the beautiful Thuya Gardens and found a surprise visitor in a lily there.

And no visit to "Kathe and Al's B & B" would be complete without a side excursion to Schoodic Point! This is actually part of ANP but about an hour's drive from the most frequently visited part of the park (SandBeachThunderHoleJordanPondHouse).
We were very fortunate that Saturday, the chosen day to visit Schoodic, was lovely! We ate our picnic lunch on the rocks and spent a good part of the afternoon scampering and relaxing on the fabulous rock outcroppings.
We made it back to MDI from Schoodic just in time for a breath-taking sunset atop Cadillac Mountain.
What a wonderful visit we had with Judi and John! No matter how many times we have friends or family come for a visit, we're always seeing things here with brand-new eyes. We hope you'll come to see us for a visit us in one of the most beautiful parts of the world! Give us a call.