Saturday, August 13, 2016

Mount Desert and Acadia National Park

Mount Desert and Acadia National Park
Making a change from our last three summers where we travelled almost non-stop, we scheduled a longer stop in Northeast Harbor on Mt. Desert Island.  We spent a week here last year and knew it was worth a longer visit.  From Northeast there is a free Ll Bean shuttle bus service into the Acadia National Park and over to Bar Harbor as well as Southwest Harbor. The miles and miles of carriage roads for biking and hiking trails are another big attraction as well as a bevy of other Krogen friends in the harbor.  We spent a few days catching up with Sea Dweller and Changing Course who we last saw on Long Island in the Bahamas in addition to meeting Jeremiah and Sea Quill and waving at Iris, Ariel, Epilogue, Two Can.
On our first weekend here, we dinked across to Southwest Harbor for a taste of their Flamingo Fest.  When we asked why “flamingos”, we were told that those familiar Florida yard birds were invented by a gentleman who summered on Mt Desert.  The Arts & Craft sale was cute – if more crafty than artsy, but the book sale at the library was a deal.  All their books were priced to move – donate what you wanted and take as many as you could carry. The cheese store and bakery in Southwest also did not disappoint.

We also have managed a little walking and biking even with a few foggy and rainy days for recovering knees.  The heat wave of 80 degree temps was not even a bother! Not a hardship to summer in Maine in the vicinity of Acadia Park.



















 Gate house - to protect the carriage roads from AUTOS








one of many unique boats in the area


Welcoming Hokule to Somes Sound - a real fiord
A lovely area to spend the summer even if we lacked WIFI and Verzion to stay in touch.

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