Don's PhotoJaunt 2003
Acadia National Park


Bar Harbor, Maine, from Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park.

Leaving Massachusetts behind, I drove to Acadia National Park, the first National Park in the eastern United States. It's a beautiful day here on the coast of Maine, a land of mountains and rugged seacoast, but I just visited the highest mountain, Mt. Cadillac.

The geology is pretty interesting, with these big blocks of granite, and then an isolated granite boulder about the size of a VW. How do big boulders get on top of mountains? That was a puzzle for centuries, until someone figured it out that it must be that glaciers passed this way and dropped them off as they melted.

The birds were having a blast, wind surfing. Birds are generally very difficult -- well nigh impossible -- to photograph on the wing, but this one held still for me. Thanks, bird.

It's October, and the wildflowers are still in bloom. That's a surprise.

Pretty interesting spot, Acadia.

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PhotoJaunt 2003 Intro | Beacon Hill Area of Boston | Boston Common | Unitarian Universalist Association | Massachusetts State House | Adams Historic Park | Boston Temple | John F. Kennedy National Historic Site | John F. Kennedy Library and Museum | Acadia National Park | Maine State Capitol | New England in the Fall | Town and Country Inn | Vermont State House | Chester Alan Arthur Birthplace | President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site | Franklin Pierce Homes and Gravesite | New Hampshire State House | Rhode Island State Capitol | New York State Capitol | Hyde Park | William J. Clinton Home | New York City | The Met | Grant's Tomb | George Washington Inauguration Site | Unitarian Church of All Souls | Theodore Roosevelt birthplace | Sagamore Hill | Woodrow Wilson Homes | Grover Cleveland Home | Amish Country | James Buchanan Sites | Eisenhower Home | Gettysburg | Lincoln Highway | Washington DC Temple | Mary Washington Home | Washington Birthplace | Ferry Farm | Mount Vernon | Appomattox Court House | James Madison Home | Highland, James Monroe's Home | Monticello | Poplar Forest | FDR's Little White House in Georgia | Jacksonville | Back to Don's Web Site Home Page |

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