Maine, Schoodic Peninsula - Friday, June 26, 2015 - Schoodic National Scenic Byway

We couldn’t get tickets for whale watching today, we’ll be going tomorrow.  We had to get out and take advantage of the nice weather so we headed for a lesser known area of Acadia National Park on Schoodic Peninsula which is across Frenchman Bay from where we have been exploring on Mount Desert Island.  The Schoodic National Scenic Highway runs along the western coast of the Schoodic Peninsula.

 

 

Our first stop was Taunton Bay.  Fresh and salt waters meet and mix here.  The tides rise and fall 12 feet every day.  Right now it is low tide.

The Hancock-Sullivan Bridge over the Taunton River is our way over to the peninsula.

Native granite is used for about ever thing from curbs to decorative posts.

 

 

 

Wildflowers are in full bloom adding some color to the otherwise green and grey landscape.  Don’t get me wrong, even without the flowers it is anything but boring.

 

 

 

 

 

This is looking across Frenchman Bay to the mountains of Mount Desert Island.  From left to right they are:  Champlain, the valley is Bar Harbor, Dorr Mountain and Mount Cadillac.  If you stand at the top of Mount Cadillac you will be one of the first to see the sun rise on a new day in the United States.

 

 

Lobster fishermen at work on Frenchman Bay.

We stopped at a little paved pull off and got a great picture of the Winter Harbor Light on Mark Island.

This little waterfall in the granite slabs was intriguing.

A trail led down to the granite slabs that make up the shoreline.

All of this looks like rocks, it is really huge slabs of granite.

 

 

This is looking across Frenchman Bay to the Winter Harbor Light and on to Mount Desert Island behind it.

Schoodic Point was our main destination.  You could hardly tell where the water stopped and the sky started.  Absolutely magnificent!!

 

 

This ribbon of black rock that looked like slate was striking going through all of the granite slabs.

I wanted to get a picture of the water rushing into this deep gorge.  Notice Greg telling me that if I would step over a little I could get a better picture – not happening.

 

 

Do you realize how hard it is to time a picture to get the water spraying up over the rocks?

This picture was taken at Blueberry Hill.  That is the Prospect Harbor Point Light in the background.  It is privately owned so we couldn’t get much closer.  The ringing of the buoys was a sound I hadn’t heard before.

I think these are called cairns, people build them to mark that they have been here.

Lobster boats at rest right now in Prospect Harbor.

Loved the day, we couldn’t have asked for better weather.  Traffic was light to non-existent, roads were curvy and the scenery was beautiful – perfect ride.