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Acadia 4

OK….before you all get ready to toss me in the cyber-wastebasket, I’ll share a few (ok…it got to be more than a few….) more photos from the ride, then switch back to something quilty, I think….. Here is a blue heron walking behind a beaver lodge!

We went down to the shore near the tent again and Paul and the boys found many, many starfish like this one (on Paul’s hand):

And Eli found the itty-bittiest starfish (or, to be more PC, “Seastar”) I’ve ever seen….yes, that little bitty thing on the tip of his not-so-very-big 8 year old fingertip is a seastar:

On the way to the tent I took a picture of this calcified kelp on top of a rock. No, I have no idea why I love the way it looks, I just do:

And no Maine series of pictures is good without rocks…I love the jaggedness combined with regularity in this heap pushing up out of the earth:

Sunset was spectacular again:

and then there was this cloud hovering over the horizon to the south that looked like a pteranosaur (for those who don’t have young sons into dinosaurs, those were the huge flying dinosaurs):

We had our last fire that night and used the last bit of wood we had with us…next time I’ll bring the tripod!

On Monday, before heading home to meet the chimney cleaners, we drove up to the top of Cadillac Mountain. It is not only the highest point on Mount Desert Island, but apparently the highest point on the Eastern seaboard. Here is a shot looking towards the mainland:

And here I LOVE the grooves left by the moving glaciers that carved out the rivers, peninsulas and bays of coastal Maine:

And a final, quintessentially Maine shot….of the lichen on the rocks, the berries waiting for winter, and the “barrens” of the high hills.

2 Responses to “Acadia 4”

  1. Deborah Says:

    Not making it to Acadia is one of my big regrets of our time in Maine. Sigh. (If only Jeff hadn’t been gone so much.) That kelp with the sunlight shining on it looks a bit like one of Chihuly’s wacky glass pieces. I loved looking at every single photo!

  2. stanzalouise Says:

    oh sarah, I’m missing the colours of the East Coast again this year…… these pics are gorgeous and remind me of Nova Scotia, making more than a little wistful to be there. I so miss the maples and sumac changing colours. Here the leaves are basically green or gone. The colours (golds, maroons and browns) don’t stay very long with the prairie wind.

    You’ve taken some gorgeous shots….. I guess I’ll just have to go dig out my fall photos and reminisce, intstead of looking out at the gray, dreary, rainy day here. I do LOVE the endless sky though, kind of like living next to the water.