These were our two days to spend in Acadia National Park. Took off reasonably early, drove to Lincolnville with two cars to leave Kamden with Marianne's son, Josh, and his family.
We arrived in Bar Harbor (aka "Bah Hahbah") and it was a zoo! Nevertheless, we scored a parking place and had a good lunch at the Side Street Cafe. We drove into the park and, after a bit of backtracking, managed to arrive at Sandy Beach where we picked up the trailhead for a steep hike around the adjacent headland, Great Head Trail.
We went back and checked into our motel, The High Seas, washed the dust off and a couple intrepid women even checked out the pool. Had some nice wine and then headed back up the road to the Chart Room for yummy fish dinners.
Tuesday morning we had a really un-wonderful breakfast across the street at the Log Cabin restaurant, then headed back to the park. The ranger suggested several trails for us to check out on the other peninsula of the park. We drove up Cadillac Mountain for the views and then drove over to the "quiet" part of the park.
We drove through the "precious hamlet" (so described in Anne's guidebook) of Somesville, and it was indeed precious with a nice little museum we spent time at and a pretty public library.
We drove to Ship's Harbor and did another hike along the headlands. Saw some interesting collections of rock cairns on one of the beaches, including a little arch.
Saw some great tide pools which I took videos of and will post later.
Saw some great tide pools which I took videos of and will post later.
Stopped in Bass Harbor to check out the lighthouse and took the steep stairs down to the rocky shore.
Then the long drive back. Stopped in Belfast to have dinner at one of Marianne's favorite places, Darby's, and went for a walk down to the harbor to watch a beautiful sunset.
We stopped in Lincolnville and picked up Kamden at Josh's; got home very tired.
