We bought a little breakfast and food for a picnic at the COOP in Belfast and set out for Acadia National Park. Acadia was the first National Park east of the Mississippi. It is a very large park along the Alantic with millions of visitors during the year. Even here in October it was crowded. In many of the parking lots it was impossible to find a place to park. We drove the 27 mile loop rode-had our picnic lunch at Otter Point and took a walk on the Eagle Lake carriage road. One of the Rockefellers financed the constructon of carraige roads in the early 1900's so people-you guessed it-could take their horse drawn carriages on the roads through the park. We then did our laundry and headed out to a pub with about 20 of its own brews. We then picked up some lobster and make a lobster sauce for our pasta and stuffed ourselves. I am ready for bed. We are off for Rockport tomorrow. (More lobster and more local brew.) BTW I checked Google maps and it is 2975 miles from Belfast, ME to Spokane, WA There were a lot of bicycist in Acadia Park. We had wanted to ride some of the carriage trails in a bicycle but were not able to make arrangements. The bus from Bayside that transported people with their bicycles had stopped running for the season. The bicycles in the park reminded me of Toronto and Montreal--there were bicyclist everwhere and lots of bicycle lanes.
Nice photos!
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