July 21-24, 2017
Route – Hopewell Cape, New Brunswick, Canada to Bar Harbor, ME
Trailer mileage: Trip – 284 miles Cumulative – 3,133 miles
Hadley’s Point Campground
Site D-14 – electric, grass pad (slight tilt), partly shaded, $42.03/night
Here we are unloading at the camp site. As you can see, we’re close to the next site. Although you can’t tell, the site is shaped like a wedge with a slight downhill slant. We had to park our car a little ways away because they brought in a fire pit and placed it where the car was. That’s a little inconvenient but not too bad. I don’t think all of the sites were like that but we probably didn’t reserve early enough to get one of the better sites.
The showers were coin-operated – seven minutes for fifty cents. The water was nice and hot. During the summer, a free shuttle that makes a circuit through Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park stops right in the campground. It’s very convenient.
The Aliner
Everything worked well – nothing special to report.
The Adventure – Acadia National Park
This was our first time at Acadia National Park. There aren’t any geysers, half-domes or similar epic sights, as there are in other national parks. Acadia is a beautiful, but subtle, park.
We saw areas covered with small, wildflowers and sections of coastal rocks with nice patterns of colored stone and lichen (see below, and double-click for the full-size image).
The views were relaxing and the skies often a crisp blue.
There are lots of vistas and places for picnics.
We saw a five-masted schooner and a nice little lighthouse out on an island.
I managed to get a nice sequence of a seagull spotting a crab underwater, diving in and catching it, and then flying to a nearby rock to enjoy its dinner.
The coast and beaches are in general rocky.
The rocks can have some surprises. A view from a cliff by the shore shows a distant lake covered with algae and surrounded by pine trees.
However, further and farther inspection reveals the true scene – a small pocket of water on some seashore rocks.
The shore line on ocean inlets is also rocky but with smaller stones and clearer water
– terrain suitable for a conquering bulldog.
It was a sublime and beautiful day.
The Ambulating Aliner 