Acadia National Park in Maine

This Scoodic Point is one of our favorite places to visit when we're up here in Northeast Maine. Something about the rocks, the fog, the remoteness of it is very appealing. 

You can see the Red push pin to the right of the map with Acadia National Park right in the middle on Mt. Desert Island.

With the parking lot to the top, you can see how large an area this encompasses. And look at the stripes of black rock. I'll show those in another photo below.

Of course, Kim and I get all geeked out when we see Geology stuff so, naturally, this was one of our favorite sites.

Here's the explanation for those stripes of black rock.

This stripe is not as wide as others but very prominent.

Here's the diabase rock and granite next to each other

You can see that the diabase rock erodes much quicker than the granite thus making these attractive pools of water.

I'm standing on the largest one....it's probably 75 feet wide.

It's remarkable how cleanly the rocks sit next to each other.

There were also lots of waves crashing while we were there. We took our portable folding chairs and just enjoyed the action.

These were all accompanied by large thunder as they hit the rock so we knew that a wave was about to put on a show the minute we heard the thunder.

These purplish cones are from a Black Spruce. Kinda different looking.

Kim's Zen garden photograph.

Very foggy day when we were there but it makes for good photos.

On the way home, we stopped at a cove where, in the fog, these fishing boats just were begging for us to take their photo.

Notice there's no back in the stern. That's so they can pull up the lobster traps right into the boat easily.

This one has the traps already in the boat.

This boat has some old-style traps made out of wood instead of the metal ones used today. It just makes for a terrific picture.

Thanks for watching!

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