Our hotel was right on the waterfront and we walked across the car park to look over the bay and the nearby islands. The tide was out and you could now walk across to the closest island.
We left the hotel and drove around the peninsula. The Acadia National Park occupies most of the peninsula and we drove past several entrance gates to the park.
As we left Acadia, we stopped at a shop selling outdoor signs of animals and we bought one of a moose silhouette. A memento of our stay in Maine.
We then decided to head north-west to Bangor where there was an AAA office, as we needed one of their guides for Long Island which we had failed to get when we were in Boston. It was a good drive along fairly quiet and open roads.
The AAA office in Bangor, which turned out to be located well outside the city.
We had agreed to meet up with the others in Kennebunkport, where we had stayed at the end of our drive across the States in 2007. Wendy wanted to re-visit a large antiques mall outside the town. One of the first things I saw for sale was a picture of a schooner. As I looked closer, I saw it was Bluenose II, the ship we had seen being totally renovated in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The picture cost me $7 and on the back was a newspaper clipping from 1993 reporting that the ship was going to be broken up as it was 'beyond repair'!
We spoke with Bob on the phone and he said they had just arrived at the hotel we had stayed at in Kennebunkport in 2007. So, we left Arundel Antiques Village and met up with them in the centre of the town.
The Kennebunkport Inn where we stayed in 2007.
We discussed where we should stay that night and came to the decision that we should head to Hyannis in Cape Cod. We found a hotel in the AAA guide and I called up and made a reservation for us all. The drive south took us out of Maine into New Hampshire and then Massachusetts.
We drove round Boston on the inner ring road and, apart from one section where there was dreadful traffic, we made good progress. Another milestone of the trip, the 3,000, or should I say 3,001 kilometre mark.
We reached Cape Cod at about 6pm and crossed the Sagamore Bridge into the Cape Cod region.
Another 25 kms and we reached our hotel, the Marriott Courtyard, just as the sun was setting. It had been a long day, nearly 700 kms of driving, but well worth it as we now have more time to see Cape Cod tomorrow before we take the ferry from Connecticut to Long Island.
Postscript
Having now Googled to find out what breed of dog it was we saw as we were boarding the ferry in Nova Scotia to cross the Bay of Fundy, I can now report it was a Newfoundland Dog, or 'Newfie'.
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