ACADIA, MAINE

A beautiful day in the neighborhood!!! Here's Cathy and Ted standing on Cadillac Mountain with the Frenchman Bay and Bar Harbor down below. Cadillac Mountain is the tallest mountain on the eastern seaboard at a height of 1530 ft. above sea level. It is the first place in the continental United States where the sun hits upon rising. It's located in Acadia National Forest.

From where Cathy and Ted are standing, looks down upon Bar Harbor, Maine. In the center of this picture is a cruise ship, we heard it was a Holland America cruise ship, but compared to the other ships in the harbor it looked huge. We left Cadillac Mountain and headed further into Acadia National Forest. The park, by the way, is actually on an island, and Bar Harbor sits on the eastern shore of the island. There are two other smaller portions of the national park on two other islands.

In 1913 Pres. Woodrow Wilson set aside 6000 acres of land for what is now Acadia Park. Between 1915 and 1933, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. was instrumental is getting the 57 miles of "carriage road" set up. These roads are for bicycles, carriages, horses, but no automobiles.

To the left are the North and South Bubble Mountains. This view is seen from the Jordan House located in the park and well-known for their popovers, the house specialty. As you can the clouds are starting to come in and the air is turning considerably cooler. This is about 3pm.

When we left the Jordan House, we headed down to Bar Harbor. Here's a picture of the same ship you saw above, only now you have an idea of how big the ship really is.

We had a marvelous time being in the park, and plan to go back tomorrow to do some more exploring. I'm having a wonderful adventure, now!!!