Today was spent mostly just lazing about camp. We did go into Bar Harbor to buy some art, and I got a bell shaped like a lighthouse.
I have waited to make this trip for almost six and a half years. I can honestly say that it was well worth the wait. We are going to try and come back up here next summer. Hopefully we can schedule a carriage ride, one of the boat tours, and make it into anemone cave.
I took some shots of the moon and stars coming up over the ocean and Otter's Point. Hopefully they turn out all-right. Well, it's a long drive home tomorrow here's to hoping the Boyd sleep most of the way home.
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Acadia - Day 2
The day started out grey and dreary. I got up, took the boys out, and started working on my blanket while David slept.
After breakfast, while I washed dishes, David took the boys on a long walk. He came back, put them in their office and we took a long walk ourselves. We ended up at the beach at Otter's Cove. We watched the tide come in, and I played in some of the tide pools. I saw a crab that was holding a smaller crab, like a momma crab holding her baby. Most likely, they were mating.
After lunch, David and I took a drive. We stopped at Thunder Hole, Otter Point, and a few other places. While we were at Otter Point, a park ranger came up to where we were on the rocks with a group of people following her. We learned why the park is set up the way it is during her talk. This is the only park that is made up entirely of land grants from private citizens.
Way back around 1900, there were a few folks up here that loved this area so much, they gave up a few acres here and there to preserve it for future generations. This is an astonishing thing because the National Park Service wasn't started until 1916. The fact that people had the foresight to put aside land and want it to be federally protected was pretty amazing.
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After breakfast, while I washed dishes, David took the boys on a long walk. He came back, put them in their office and we took a long walk ourselves. We ended up at the beach at Otter's Cove. We watched the tide come in, and I played in some of the tide pools. I saw a crab that was holding a smaller crab, like a momma crab holding her baby. Most likely, they were mating.
After lunch, David and I took a drive. We stopped at Thunder Hole, Otter Point, and a few other places. While we were at Otter Point, a park ranger came up to where we were on the rocks with a group of people following her. We learned why the park is set up the way it is during her talk. This is the only park that is made up entirely of land grants from private citizens.
Way back around 1900, there were a few folks up here that loved this area so much, they gave up a few acres here and there to preserve it for future generations. This is an astonishing thing because the National Park Service wasn't started until 1916. The fact that people had the foresight to put aside land and want it to be federally protected was pretty amazing.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Acadia Trip - Day 1
Today I woke up and took the boys for a walk. While I waited for David to get up, i worked on my blanket some more. After he got out of bed, we took the boys for a ride so we could get showers and get some groceries. I have to admit, this is the first time I had ever seen pay showers. You got four minutes of water for $2 in quarters; ingenious that should make someone a decent living near a park that doesn't have showers. After groceries, we went back to camp to have bur
gers for lunch, and drop off the boys so we could go up to the visitors center in the park.
On the way to the Visitors Center in the park, we stopped off at a few of the scenic pull offs and took pictures. I'm thinking I will add some of our pictures to my journal when we get home and I can edit this better. While at the Visitor's center, we got our National Parks passport and saw the introductory film for the park. We went on some more of the Park Loop Road and stopped at the Nature Center and the Abbé museum here in the park. We are thinking about going back there tomorrow and looking at the gardens there if it's not raining.
After seeing what I've gotten to see today, I really think we need to preserve areas like the National Parks. Not preserve them so they never change, the planet is evolving every day so that is very hard to do, but preserve the space so that it is always wild and can evolve and change naturally the way God intends. You see, God is in the details of life and you never know what He wants us to do and/or see.
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gers for lunch, and drop off the boys so we could go up to the visitors center in the park.On the way to the Visitors Center in the park, we stopped off at a few of the scenic pull offs and took pictures. I'm thinking I will add some of our pictures to my journal when we get home and I can edit this better. While at the Visitor's center, we got our National Parks passport and saw the introductory film for the park. We went on some more of the Park Loop Road and stopped at the Nature Center and the Abbé museum here in the park. We are thinking about going back there tomorrow and looking at the gardens there if it's not raining.
After seeing what I've gotten to see today, I really think we need to preserve areas like the National Parks. Not preserve them so they never change, the planet is evolving every day so that is very hard to do, but preserve the space so that it is always wild and can evolve and change naturally the way God intends. You see, God is in the details of life and you never know what He wants us to do and/or see.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Acadia Trip - Arrival
Well, we got here. It only took us around 10 hours to get here from Heather and Kevin's house, and that was just to Bar Harbor, not to our campsite. We got to the park well before dark, but I thought that the campground would be in the park itself, not further down Maine Route 3. So we took the trailer through the park for at least an extra hour.
When we finally got through Bar Harbor with the trailer, we found our way to Blackwoods Campground and got checked in. Since I got the trailer too close to the curb, David took over the driving to fix my error and get us settled into our spot. On the way into our spot, we hit a tree with the side of the trailer because I didn't tell David to stop soon enough. We didn't do that much damage, we just folded down part of the door molding and David had to fix it so we could get into the trailer.
When we finally got through Bar Harbor with the trailer, we found our way to Blackwoods Campground and got checked in. Since I got the trailer too close to the curb, David took over the driving to fix my error and get us settled into our spot. On the way into our spot, we hit a tree with the side of the trailer because I didn't tell David to stop soon enough. We didn't do that much damage, we just folded down part of the door molding and David had to fix it so we could get into the trailer.
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