One Morning in Maine

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Have you read this book?  It was one of my absolute favorite books as a child, and after spending a day in Bar Harbor, Maine I love it even more.  I was completely enchanted by the coastline.  I can see why my husband loves Maine so much (he was born in Bangor, Maine).  I thought of him a lot as we explored Acadia National Park.

Downtown Bar Harbor

The town is adorable and during low tide you can walk along the tide pools to Bar Island.

The tide pools were a lot of fun - they were full of oyster shells, barnacles, tiny crabs (they're the brown spiral shells in the picture above), seaweed, beautiful rocks, and we even found a live starfish.  I didn't expect it to be so prickly and spiny.

Some of the tide pools

A view looking back from Bar Island

Christina posing on Bar Island

We then headed to Acadia National Park.  You could spend a whole month just exploring that place- it's huge! We drove the park loop, and then walked down to Sand Beach (very creative name, I know).

I thought it was a little cold for swimming, but that didn't stop quite a few people that were there.  Ang and Stina headed straight for the rocks. 

We hiked the path along the rim of the coast and it was one of the most beautiful hikes I've ever done. 

Thunder Hole:
















Otter Cliffs are in the background:

 You can see Sand Beach in the distance behind us:

It was a lovely hike, but I think these two had the right idea.  I could have sat there and read a good book all day long, but alas, we needed to get going to Canada.