Acadia

We spent last week in Maine on Mount Desert Island, home of Acadia National Park, staying at our usual rental in Somesville in the middle of the island.   We still love going up there after 30 years.

The Island has the only mountain range on the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. as well as the only fjord on the East Coast (Somes Sound, the fingerlike intrusion into the center of the island).

You can see a long way from some of the mountains.

Mount Desert has a lot of rocks.  Hard rocks - that's why the glaciers didn't wear 'em down.

The village of Seal Harbor with the fog bank coming in.

Our favorite place to eat.  The operator of Keenan's Kitchen used to own a restaurant in Bass Harbor, closed it and then left for a few years.  He came back last summer with this truck.  Specializes in Cajun and BBQ.  Have some of the shrimp & sausage gumbo (mine also had lobster thrown into it). You can find him on the pullover about 1 mile beyond the turnout for Bass Harbor and just before the turnoff for Bernard (there's only one road in the area so you can't miss it).

There are smaller islands just off of Mount Desert.  This is from the dock on Great Cranberry as we were waiting for the mail boat to take us back to Mount Desert (you can see the tallest peaks, Cadillac (to the right) and Sargeant (in the center).   And below is looking back from the dock up Great Cranberry's main street giving you a glimpse of the stir of daily activity.

Bar Harbor is the biggest and busiest town on the island.  I'll spare you the downtown crowds and instead show you this deceptively tranquil picture looking from the harbor side park onto the harbor.