Monday
We drove to Bar Harbor, an hour away, to get tickets for our Wednesday ferry trip to Nova Scotia. Ate a fish sandwich at Guppy’s in downtown Bar Harbor walked around the shops and drove back home after taking a few pictures of the harbor.
Wednesday
Our day started very early as we are staying about an hour away from Bar Harbor, where we catch The Cat, the ferry that will take us to Nova Scotia. We have to be there by 7 am. We were up by a little after 4 and on the road by 5. We stopped to have breakfast at a McDonalds along the way. The Cat is the only North American ferry that can carry up to 775 passengers, 250 cars and 14 motorcoaches across the ocean at highway speeds of 60 miles per hour. On our trip there were only a few motorcoaches but there were about 50 or so motorcycles and many, many cars. The Cat has 2 food and drink bars, 4 TV movie lounges, a casino, a café, a gift shop and plenty of lounge chairs with a panoramic view from the front of the boat. At the back is an open observation deck where we could watch the water jets of The Cat shoot out a tail over 20 feet high and 50 feet long. For most of the trip we did fine but long towards the end it got very choppy and we both were a little queezy. The trip over to Yarmouth Nova Scotia is 3 hours.
