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Bar Harbor/ Reindeer fashioned from vines stand sentry at the entrance to this clifftop retreat overlooking Frenchman Bay. They reflect the "upscale country ambiance" that Jack and Jeani Ochtera have imparted since our first stay in this early 1900s house that has been "added to a million times," in Jeani's words. King or queen canopied and four-poster beds plump with feather mattresses and countless pillows, Ralph Lauren towels and linens, and colorful quilts with matching window treatments are the rule in seven guest rooms, three with jacuzzi tubs. All have picture windows or french doors and balconies affording splendid water vistas. A paneled upstairs sitting room harbors a hidden TV/VCR amidst a decorative scheme of old family fishing gear, hand-carved birds and Jeani’s handmade samplers. Jeani painted a colorful faux window and flower box to dress up a blank yellow wall in Room 10. She collected her favorite Claire Murray rugs with Nantucket scenes for the deluxe new Summer Cottage – complete with stone fireplace, whirlpool tub, wet bar, TV with surround sound, deck and kingsize featherbed in the second-level master suite – that the couple vacated when they moved into a house next door. Rolling lawns and gardens lead to a sheer cliff, where a steep staircase descends 80 feet to the stony beach and a cave along the bay. An expansive, tiered deck stretches along the back of the inn. Here are umbrellaed tables and twig chairs where you may read and relax at this truly relaxing place. A heated swimming pool is on a lower level of the deck, and tall pine trees all around make the salt air even more refreshing. Roses brighten the expanded gardens. The inn’s first floor contains a sauna and steam shower, as well as a sunroom where Jeani offers fresh fruit, cereal, granola, breads, flaky croissants with Nervous Nellie’s preserves and perhaps three-cheese and bacon quiche, blueberry buckle or cheese strata. We took ours out to the deck and watched cheeky chipmunks race around, vying for crumbs. The inn also offers three other cottages, one with kingsize bed and fieldstone fireplace, hidden in the trees across the road.
(207) 288-4204. (Winter: 207-875-3262). E-mail: bayledge@downeastnet.com
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