Crawford Notch to Acadia National Park, ME. July 7, 2016

Crawford Notch to Acadia National Park, ME.  July 7, 2016

Big leg today. After a fantastic night sleep with the activities and awesome campground yesterday, today was the ride to Maine and the highlight of our trip.  Acadia National Park.  We planned on spending two days here as everyone we heard from said it is an AMAZING place.  It’s been on our bucket list for a while. Today we drove, and drove, and drove.  I noticed multiple deer on this path, especially as I almost destroyed a fawn grazing near the road. About four hours later, we were closer to our destination. Jen Clarke told me about the Penebscot observatory and bridge linking two counties.  The Penebscot Narrows bridge was constructed in 2003-2006 and has an Observatory at the top of a 400 foot spire. Of course we had to go up the elevator ride to the top and check out the foggy lay of the land!

Up High

Down Low

Next to the Observatory is Fort Knox, a Maine fort that guarded the Narrows in the late 1800’s early 1900s.  I had reminders of Ft Pickens without the blown up battery as we toured this place.  

Remnants of the shoot at Ft Pickens.  Avery wanted to do this one for +Scott Rust 

One thing about Maine was it was ‘cold and misty’ and that’s an understatement!  The high temp was about 59 degrees and the mist made the weather downright nast-o!  The observatory would have been awesome had there not been 100 percent cloud cover and mist / fog all around.  I would have enjoyed it much more and the pics would have been more awesome, but we took what we could get as the trip back toward Boston will mainly be expressway. Feeling refreshed after stretching our legs and walking around in fog and mist, we finished our destination about an hour later, entering Acadia around 4:30 PM.  This just felt like a long day in the car. Once we got set up however, we decided we wanted to check out “thunder hole” –an area of crashing waves into a cave on the rim of the park. It was, needless to say, and AMAZING time. 

Even though high tide was about 4 hours earlier, the incoming and outgoing waves made a thunderous  sound, with mist and spray for everyone on the rail.  The sky was still murky though and the mist eventually became rain as it got darker.  We were all kinda bummed about the weather, so decided to head to nearby Bar Harbor for some warmer clothing and an attempt to get a lobster roll.  By the time we parked about 18 blocks away from the city, we decided to walk toward the place Jen read about that has the cheapest Lobster Rolls nearby.  To our utter disappointment, when we arrived at 7:25PM we realized that the place closed at 7pm.  What restaurant does that?  Oh well, maybe some other time.  It probably wouldn’t have been able to hold a candle to Lobster Landing in Connecti cut anyway.  This is a place on our itinerary that @Ultraromance frequents.  Can’t wait to go.  We ended up eating some Mexican food (very good Mexican food I might add) at Jalapenos, which was nearby.  Averys Quesadillas were by far the best food we all tried.

Needless to say, after picking up GT a pair of Moose socks and me a Bar harbor cap, and Avery a shirt, we headed back to a very wet campground.  Now I know why Maine folks are always wearing slickers.  Does the sun EVER come out here?  We went to bed early looking forward to only a 10% chance of rain tomorrow, but a high of 65 with what I’m sure is 100% cloud cover.  We’ll have to see what happens.