New England Trip

There is a section of Acadia National Park about 45 road miles east of Bar Harbor, but just about 6 miles east by water across Frenchman’s Bay, called Schoodic Peninsula. We drove there today, picked up a picnic lunch in the town of Winter Harbor, and sat on the rocks at Schoodic Point to enjoy it and take in the spectacular view. Schoodic Point is a granite outcropping about 20 feet above the Atlantic Ocean where the waves come crashing in and burst against the rocks – shooting water about 40 feet into the air. The point is a wide table of pink granite, interspersed with lines of black basalt rock that hardened from lava that flowed into cracks in the granite many years ago. There was lots of room to walk out on the point, but the park ranger cautioned all of us to stay back from the edge. According to a local couple we met there, some people posing at the edge for photographs have been swept off the rocks by the crashing waves and drowned. We took lots of pictures (see attached).

From Schoodic Point, we drove around the park road, and found a little roadside spot to set up our folding chairs and enjoy some cold beers and our books beside the crashing surf. Wicket was with us, and found a good spot to chew a toy at our feet. After a while, we drove on around the park road through a fishing village and out to a beautiful lighthouse that the US Navy uses as a “satellite operations detachment,” protected with razor wire.. The lighthouse was so pretty, it would have been great to get a picture of it, but there was no way to get a good photo view.