Saturday, October 19, 2019: Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse; Auto Museum; Lobster

We arose to a beautifully clear, cool and sunny morning. We had a quick breakfast at the hotel and started off to see the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse on the southern tip of the island. It was a nice scenic drive. The Trip Advisor  reviews made the lighthouse sound very interesting. It turned out to be not so interesting and much less impressive than we had hoped.

Maria decided on the next stop and kept it as a surprise. This was the auto museum in Seal Cove. This was very interesting and a remarkable collection of unique vehicles. Coincidentally, they were preparing the museum for a wedding to be held that afternoon and were setting up tables, chairs and chilling down multiple bottles of Champagne. https://www.sealcoveautomuseum.org/

They even had the original true Great Race car (https://www.sealcoveautomuseum.org/collection-test/1912-thomas-flyer/)

Back to Bar Harbor in search of lobster. We settled in the West St. Cafe for the next several hours.

I had the seafood melody and Maria the lobster. Hers turned out to be a bit dangerous. When she was crushing one of the claws, it exploded and a large lobster shrapnel almost got me in the eye. Fortunately, I had a class of gin and tonic up to my mouth which took the majority of the impact.

We had dinner reservations at the hotel, so about 3:30 pm we decided to head back. We first walked over to the sand bar connecting Mt Desert Island to Bar Island. High tide was just after 3:00 pm so the sand bar was under water, but we saw where it should be. We will try to remember to check it again on the way out tomorrow.

We had a series of small plates at the bar, including a cheese platter, foie gras, squab and Maine oysters. We might have had more, but neither of us could remember.