Day 5 – Acadia National Park

Warning…This post has a lot of photos and a couple videos… It was a fun day! We took our time starting out this morning, but then started to drive around the loop of Acadia.

We stopped at a pullout to take a look at the crashing waves and climb around on the rocks. We just had to snap some photos including one that Jeff posed for his track girls. It was near low tide so we could see some tide pools. The sound of the waves crashing to shore was exciting to this family from Green Bay. The bedrock had white quartz in it. Very cool!

After stopping at the visitor’s center and going on a little souvenir buying frenzy (I did not end up getting this hat, but love Carson’s photobomb), we drove to Cadillac Mountain, and stopped in that gift shop before hiking around the mountain top.

We sound the geographic and triangulation markets at the summit and enjoyed the beautiful view. Lots of rocks to climb around on too. The Bate’s Cairns along the trails are very old and are protected. The pointy stone at the top of cairn shows the direction of the trail. It was all so breathtakingly beautiful.

On the other side of the parking lot there is a trail that leads down to some amazing views and patches of blueberries, which just happens to be Spencer’s favorite food. A nice little snack during our hike.

Next up was Jordan Pond to have lunch. Unfortunately we drove around in both parking lots and the roads around it that allowed parking but couldn’t find even one spot. So we decided to skip it. We thought 2 pm would be late enough to miss the lunch rush but I guess not. Oh well, next time we pass come, we will go here right away when it opens.

We were stating to get hangry as we pulled into Bar Harbor for lunch. It was very crowded (like Fish Creek on a summer weekend). They had a Gilmore Girls type village square and many old historic houses that we passed as we drove around looking for a parking space. Finally we found on and went to the first seafood restaurant we found. Delicious clam chowder for the adults, and mussels for Jeff. The boys had fish and chips but they each tried mussels for the first time and loved them! I also tried their blueberry mohito. Yummy!

After heading back to the campground to relax for a bit, we headed to a place nearby called Beal’s for our lobster dinner. Spencer chose to have mussels because he want too sure about eating a lobster that was alive when we picked it out, but Carson wanted lobster along with both of us. We named the lobsters, Tim, Fred and Gone. They were tasty!

Our last stop for the day was the Bass Harbor lighthouse. It was low tide so there were a lot of rocks for all of us to “parkour” around on as Jeff and I took photos (most of mine with with the real camera). Jeff took a particularly awesome one that he edited to look like a painting! It was only a matter of time until one of us took a digger and Carson was the winner. He slid on some seaweed and scraped up his heel. He was a trooper though. Jeff bandaged him up and we went back on the (paved) trail for a bit before heading back to the campsite to enjoy a nice campfire.