This morning we could have seen that sun rise before any of you....if we had gotten up at 6:36AM. It was shining most of the day!! But we no longer get up that early. Instead, we went to the summit of Cadillac Mountain at 6:06 PM to see that sun set. Not as impressive as the sunsets on the west coast over the ocean. But still worth the journey and effort to get there.
We spent the entire day at Acadia Nat'l Park. It is located on Dessert Island, a rock-based island on the Atlantic coast. You can see the great granite cliffs undermined by the pounding surf, making it very picturesque. We did a lot of climbing on those rocks. The photo of the Bass Harbor Lighthouse, at the southernmost tip of Mount Dessert Island, can be best photographed from the rocks, since it is literally built on the rugged granite cliff! It was built in 1858 and is still fully operational. Acadia has five lighthouses off the coast, but this is the only one accessible by car. Maine has the second largest number of lighthouse. The state of Michigan has the most!!
The other photos are of us on the top of Bubble Rock. The view was fantastic and well worth the mile climb up a rocky path. This boulder was just left here from the ice sheet glacier traveling and gathering up large rocks and carrying them some distances. It looks like you could just push that boulder off the cliff...we tried! To the west of Bubble Rock we could see Jordan Lake and to the east, we had a great view of the Atlantic Ocean. And it was pure solitude. No one else there but us. We just set the self timer on the camera and instant memories.
Next we are heading down to the mid coast of Maine to see the lobster capital of the world! The price of lobster appear to be very cheap, but neither one of us likes lobster!
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