9/6/2017 Maine

From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com 

Tim and Linda Bunyan

MAINE

Bar Harbor @ Acadia National Park at Seawall RV Camp Ground

9/6 – 9/13

LOBSTER SHACK, MAINE

BAR HARBOR












President Obama sought out this ice creamy; located on a side street in the historic town of Bar Harbor, Maine.  Excellent!

 working lobster boats

 Local Library

 Maine Priorities

'Tail Gate Party'

Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse

The hiking trail up Gorham Mountain of granite.  

Much to learn for the Wonderer and the Wanderer.

 Cadillac Mountain views

Fantastic opportunity to look into granite formed from magma chamber as minerals cooled.



Carriage Roads

 BIKE RIDE on Rockefeller's Carriage Bridges: appear natural.  Miles of carriage roads given to future generations.  "Friends of Acadia" to preserve carriage roads and hiking trails and LLBean donates toward propane bus es to bring folks into the natural beauty at Acadia.  Groups of volunteers maintain the trails for is all.  That is the spirit of Acadia.

Jordon Pond on the Loop Road.  All kinds of play here.  Swimming and programs for young people that learn about the habitat of the macroinvertebrates.  The sea cucumber brings water in and out to move about. Geology changes by metamorphosis.  Junior Ranger program extended to adults!

Carriage Roads

Tim spotted the Hinckley Company Boat Works yard and marina.  The boats were coming into storage for the winter season.

The Hinckley

 we also found Hinckley Yachts in New Port, Rhode Island

Dinner at the XYZ Restaurant in Seawall, Maine...just down the road from our RV home.

The Quiet Side 

Downeast Acadia and Schoodic Woods, ME @ Acadia NP 9/13 – 9/17 Schoodic Peninsula

 Visitors Reception Center at Schoodic Woods: We extended our stay in Maine.  Relocated to the Schoodic Woods RV Camp.

 Hiking Trail.  This coastline has inspired poets and writers about the environment to think of the future to learn of the past.  

Park Amphitheatre where we attended

 Educational Ranger Programs

Glaciers and volcanos have changed these rocks from the ice age.  More than one pine cones out make it a pine tree and the number of needles determines the type of pine.

Ice Cream on the edge of Nature
near Wonsqueek Lodge 









Goldsborough town, Dysart's serves the real lobster families that live out here.

Wonsqueek Lodge

MAINE, where Less Is More.  A way of life that becomes addictive.  

8/29/2017 Newport, Rhode Island

From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com 

Tim and Linda Bunyan

8/29 Tuesday – day drive to:

NEWPORT, Rhode Island (Day Trip)

Sakonnet River Bridge to access Portsmouth, Middletown, and Newport to the south.

Walked from Visitor’s Center thru Newport Harbor. and then drove on along 

Just off America’s Cup Avenue, we walked on the 
Thames Street along the Wharf. 
 We entered the front office and headquarters for the:

IYRS:

International Yacht Restoration School. 

The International Yacht Restoration Institute prepares students to enter a global maker & manufacturing workforce.  
The art and science of making, building, restoring & maintaining to gain knowledge using their hands and technology they have the power to build almost anything.  3-acre campus overlooking Newport harbor. 


Internationally recognized 1993 waterfront the campus in the heart of Newport, RI: Restoration Hall, The Brooks Building, and the Aquidneck Mill Building.

Restoration of the Coronet at the IYRS.  Since 1995 on the campus of the IYRS

in Newport, this 1885 sailing vessel is being restored.
Open to public and be visited on the IYRS campus.

First launched in 1885, this elegant sailing yacht is for crossing the ocean in style.  Marble staircase, stained glass doors, mahogany paneled staterooms, and a piano in the main salon.  
131’ schooner by William Townsend & built for Rufus T. Bush by the C. & R Poillon shipyard in Brooklyn.   NY Times wrote: The Coronet placed first in 1887 for a victorious, transatlantic race against the yacht Dauntless.

Luxury powerboats boats of Newport:

Hinckley Luxury Yachts

The Black Pearl at exclusive Bowen’s Wharf.com [for festivals] (anchor of Newport) open-air, mid mall eatery with umbrellas drew a line.  We crossed over a couple of blocks to The Red Parrot.  A large assorted menu with Tim's choice of coconut shrimp wrap and I had lobster quesadilla, of course.

Drive to:

Narragansett Bay to the location of the
Newport Jazz Festival at:
Fort Adams State Park      {Home of the Newport Jazz Festival}
America’s largest coastal fortification.  

Even tho a light rainfall began, we watched the sailboats and their eager crew in the  Harbor.  

Many other vessels:
A large cargo ship filled with automobiles (all enclosed) passed by Narragansett Bay. 

The ferry jetted by at full speed conquering all by time.

Yachts were lined up around shore and one anchored outside of the Harbor.



We walked Newport Harbor seaside city on Aquidneck Island founded in 1639.

www.historicToursofNewport.com

NOTE: Brown University in Providence, RI: One-hour North (Jeff’s friend attending Brown-with interest in Rowing.)









VISITED THE VANDERBILTS

Mansions:  www.Newport.Mansions.org

The Breakers (1895) 44 Ochre Point Avenue most palatial summer residence National Historic Landmark.  Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II.  
Italian Renaissance with 70 rooms and 138,000 sq. ft.

Marble House (1892) 596 Bellevue Avenue Build for Alva Vanderbilt designed with architect modeled after the Petit Trianon at Versailles with 5000,000 cu ft. of marble. National Historic Landmark.

The view from the 

Vanderbilt beach house