Yarmouth & Acadia National Park

This was our last day with Julia's sister and family. Right after breakfast we drove two hours to the visitor center of the Acadia National Park, a popular destination for hiking. It offers typical Maine ponds and picturesque views with mountains covered in forest. We got the annual park pass "America the beautiful" which is 80$ per vehicle and is usually worth the money after three days of visits. As we're planning to visit more parks (mind that it's just national parks, not state parks) on the West Coast, this'll come in handy. Unfortunately we didn't have a lot of time in the park as our ferry left already at 2pm. Therefore we just had a little walk and a picnic and then drove to the ferry terminal and said goodbye. It was great spending so much time with them, especially with the kids.
While waiting to board the ferry we overheard some people talking about the fact that the ferry couldn't drive for the past three days because of the weather. So even if we would've wanted to pick up the van on Friday we couldn't have made it to Halifax. The ferry is called "The CAT" , a high-speed catamaran which can transport up to 800 persons and 200 cars. But apparently it isn't running profitable and there weren't a lot of people with us (max. 100). It's very comfortable but the food was awful 😅
We arrived at 07:30pm in Yarmouth without a plan how to get to Halifax and where to stay tonight. After a bit of walking we booked a room in the main street and tried calling a shuttle service that is supposed to be running to Halifax. Julia left a voicemail and we went out to eat in Taco Bell (we went to McDonald's first but they didn't have any vegetarian options). Shortly after we came back to our hotel room someone knocked on the door. A woman from the shuttle service operator tried to reach us but we didn't answer the phone so she came by 🤩 So we could go happy to sleep that we have found a way to make it to Halifax ☺️Read more