Last week (Friday to Friday), Joan and I took a trip up the Maine coast. We left the house on the morning of the 20th and pulled into our campsite at the Seawall Campground in Acadia National Park about 4 PM. We spent the late afternoon and early evening exploring the less traveled side of the park near the campground. After dark, we had lobster rolls for dinner at Thurston’s Lobster Pound in Bernard, ME. Highly recommended!
On Saturday, we spent most of the day driving the Park’s loop road stopping at many of the sights there are to see. In the late afternoon, we ended up at the Pinnacle Trail parking lot watching the not-quite-fledged Peregrine Falcon chicks through the spotting scope (i.e. way too far away for photographs). The only other person at the parking lot when we arrived was a die-hard birder named Steve, from Port Washington, NY of all places! (I grew up in “Port”.) Even stranger… Steve had just finished a week volunteering at the Audubon Camp in Maine on Hog Island in Bremen. Our next stop after Acadia was to be Hog Island for the Arts & Birding session!!! Talk about “small world”! Eventually we made it back to Thurston’s for lobster rolls again… they were that good!
Sunday morning we packed up the camper and headed southish/westish… towards Bremen and Hog Island. We arrived mid-afternoon, right in time to get the second boat from the mainland to the island.
Stay tuned… there is more to follow.*
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* I have divided the weeks photos into five galleries. Thus, I expect that this will mean five posts; some may be light on the text!