Schoodic Peninsula-Acadia National Park, Maine
The Schoodic Peninsula portion of ANP is across the bay from the main part of the park. The land for this park was donated by the family of John G. Moore, a Maine native and Wall St financier in the 1920s, to be dedicated to parkland forever. Visitors must either drive west on Maine 3, then north on US 1 or take the Bar Harbor ferry to reach the park. The park loop road follows the coast of the headland for about 3 miles with many pullovers to observe the shore. There are also many parking areas where the visitors can walk the rocky cliffs and beaches.
We arrived as the tide was coming in and the waves were bursting on the face of the headland, a beautiful sight. We took the girls with us today and they enjoyed walking the rocky shores also. We noticed, as along most the coast, the many buoys for lobster traps. A few lobstermen were pulling in their catch as we passes.
There were flocks of eider ducks swimming in the waves but I was unable to get their pictures.
Arriving at mid-day we were surprise at the heavy fog laying over much of water, especially in the coves.
Tom and the girls. Gracie in the front, Maddie at his side.
Maddie and Gracie on the headland
Waves crash on the headland.
Waves crash on the headland.
Tree gnarled by the winds and surf
The black rock is called a diabase dike. I think, from reading a geology page, that they are igneous rock that formed in the cracks in the granite.
Happy Maddie, she only fell in a tide pool once.
September 2nd, 2014