Baa Ha Baa

Bar Harbor is a tourist town on Mount Desert Island.

This photo was taken early in the day, just as the shops began to open.

I had to get there early to find a parking space.

By noon you would have a difficult time walking down the sidewalk,

The streets are filled with shops and restaurants.

You can barely see the bay at the bottom of the street.

Ice cream must be extremely important to people in Maine.

There are soooo many places to buy it.

Do all these places stay open all winter, or do they make enough money during the short summer to survive?

Jack's Jewelry has two locations on the same block.

The big draw is tourmaline, a gem stone mined in Maine.

The stone can be several different colors, but they are usually pink or green.

Some stones are pink on one side and green on the other; earning the name "watermelon".

I tried to like it, but couldn't.

When this tour ship leaves the bay they raise the sails.

This harbor has a little bit of everything moored in it.

Nice yacht, huh?

At low tide the water recedes enough to walk out to Bar Island.

There are dozens of people out there.

Geddy's Bar, the place to stop in after a hard day at the shore.

I have to admit that I've been disappointed by the lack of accents in Maine.

Most of the sales people in the shops aren't from Maine,

but are here for the summer season's mild temperatures.

Our pilot yesterday was from Massachusetts, and our neighbors

in RV parks are on vacation like us.

Baa Ha Baa does have accents, but I suspect they lay it on thick for the tourists.

Yesterday we stopped at a classic car sales lot and spent some time talking to the owner about our love of older automobiles.

He commented on his low inventory of "kaz".