Acadia 4
October 14th, 2006OK….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:
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.