Acadia National Park - Schoodic Peninsula

Acadia has a part of the park that is co-located by being just across the water, but it is 45 minutes or more drive away, on the Schoodic Peninsula.

The main part of Acadia National Park is on Mt Desert Island, in the lower center of this map. We went to Schoodic Point on the Schoodic Peninsula today.

As we drove, we noticed that it was looking foggy over the water. We stopped at Frazer Point - Dwayne is on the dock just to the right of the roof topped structure.

We then stopped at just a pull off on the road - it was so interesting to know that there was so much to see just beyond us in the fog.

One of the things that was so neat at that pull-off is that we could hear bells from a buoy that we could not see. You may be able to hear them on the video, but they weren't very loud, and the other sounds might overpower them.

Dwayne down nearer to the water

A beach rose

The bees were loving collecting pollen in the beach roses - here is a video of one of them rolling around in the pollen.

We then headed down to Schoodic Point. We weren't anticipating seeing much, but the fog began to lift while we were there.

You may be able to barely make out the mountain rising up from the water across Frenchman Bay.

One of the information boards told of the different kinds of rock that were present here - that the granite has smaller mineral crystals and more fractures than the Cadillac Mountain granite that makes up much of Mount Desert Island. It indicated that, where there were cracks, newer magma with a different mix of minerals intruded along the fractures.

You can see two of those fractures with the "newer" magma rock (the black stripes) through the older granite.

The information board also said that this "newer" magma rock erodes more quickly and leaves nooks and crannies where water and soil collects. One of these had created an inlet where the sea water was rushing in.

While we were there, the fog was lifting -

You can see the mountain on the other side of Frenchman Bay a little better.

The sound and sight of the surf was so relaxing.

One thing that we couldn't quite understand - the sea birds seemed to be grouped all in a line - like on a telephone or electric wire, but they were on the water.

It is nearly impossible to see the sea birds - but they are almost at the level of Dwayne's left shoulder and extending out to the left from him almost to the edge of the picture. We were pretty sure that they were loons.

Just before we left the area, an antique car showed up. We didn't go over to see it, but I overheard someone said it was a "Martin".

It passed us (and we passed it when it would stop at the side of the road) a couple of times - it appeared to have 1947 TX license plate with an "A" (for Antique?) and 21.

We should have gone over and found out more about it - if I had known it had Texas plates at the time, I would have!!!