Acadia National Park

This morning we did a drive through of this beautiful park.  Still lots of traffic and people have the parking areas quite full and difficult to find parking spaces for "The Beast" where a smaller auto would be easier.

Our first stop for pictures was at Sand Beach.  This is a pocket beach in a cove and the only area with sand in this area.  Otherwise the shore line is mostly huge rock.

 We did collect a sample of sand for our (claimed) daughter #2

Then it was a stop at the Thunder Hole, when waves come in and hit a pocket in the rock to make a roaring noise.  My pictures don't show a big event but as I was walking away back to the truck a big one came in for a loud roar.

 looking back from above

 Then it was a drive up to the top of Cadillac Mountain the highest point in the park.

This first view is looking North toward the town of Bar Harbor with three cruise ships visiting today.

 Looking East from the top of Cadillac Mountain

 Looking Westward.  Our campground would be at the waters level at the extreme right of this image

 Just an interesting bush with red berries

 This is our own flower garden back at our campsite

with lovely asters

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 and goldenrod

After we left the park it was a few minutes past noon so we thought we would drive into downtown Bar Harbor for a unique cafe for lunch.  No way were we going to find a place to park our BIG truck in this totally touristy town with narrow streets and most of the traffic was pedestrian.  We just squeezed through and headed back to the campground for a bite of late, lite, lunch.  The campground has an open air cafe where we plan to take advantage of a lobster themed dinner this evening.