After the crowds of yesterday on Mt. Desert Island of Acadia National Park, today we opted to visit another piece of the ANP which is much less visited - Schoodic Peninsula. It was our first time over here and oh my, how nice! Very few people and just as scenic. Of course we had the ever-present sea fog which obscured our view of Mt. Desert Island, but whatcha gonna do? This park also has a loop road and we did the drive and stopped at the places. Highly recommend!
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| There is a lovely campground here and if we come back, it'll be our first choice.... |
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| Hope you can read this. Enlarge if necessary. |
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| This is a relief map we saw in the visitor center. On the left is the eastern part of Mt. Desert Island. On the right is the Schoodic Peninsula. |
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| The Schoodic Institute is located in the historic Rockefeller Building, which was part of the Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Harbor. Click the links for more information; quite interesting. |
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| The Rockefeller Building has a fascinating construction. Including wooden pegs securing the wooden supports. Click the link to see more about it's reconstruction. |
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| Take a look at the name on the typewriter..... :) |
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| Further down at the tip of the peninsula, we learned some stuff. |
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| Still lots of sea fog, but plenty of lively surf! |
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| Signage is our friend! It's how we learn about where we are..... |
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| Here is a classic example a diabase dike. |
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| Surf was just pounding away on this "soft" dike. |
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| In another part of the Schoodic point, there's an area of little rounded rocks deposited by glaciation. And where there are little rocks, there will be cairns. |
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| Why hello! Got a carrot? |
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| Please ignore the ugly power lines; this is a wonderful old house on the Schoodic Peninsula. Pure New England coast. |
