After downing another plate of wild Maine blueberry pancakes at Two Cats, my plan for the day was to go back to Otter Cove and read … all day. But the spirit moved me to move on after an hour or so and I took the exit from Park Loop Road to Cadillac Mountain. […]
Drove the 40 miles from Bar Harbor to Prospect Harbor today to meet Dick Fisher, the bronze smith who designed the bell I bought in Camden roughly ten years ago. U.S. Bells, which is what Dick calls his nearly 40-year-old foundry, is a 5-person operation when it’s in full swing, but the tourist season […]
It would be more accurate to title today’s blog, “Northeast Harbor.” That’s where I boarded the friendship schooner “Alice” at Dysart Grand Harbor Marina for a two-hour sail past Bear Island and the Cranberry Islands to Otter Cove, then back again. Our captain, Karl Brunner, a sometimes lobster fisherman, explained many things to […]
