Acadia and the Ferry

We had reserved a 4:00 ferry trip to Nova Scotia, so we had most of day 3 to explore Acadia National Park, which is just outside town. There is a loop road that curls through the park, but the real attraction is the coastline. The rocks drop right into the water, which is incredibly clear (and COLD). Although I had heard about Maine's rocky coastline, I didn't expect the cliffs to be as sqare and consequently, jungle-gym-like, as they were. Jason and I were like kids, climbing all over the place and jumping from rock to rock.

Did I mention the weather? Sunny, kind of hot, actually, especially in the bike pants as we were climbing all over the rocks. We rode to the top of the highest pead in the park, Caddilac Mountain, and ate a picnic lunch looking down over the bay. There are lots of little islands right off the bay called, endearingly, the porcupines. With the fir trees sticking up on them the only thing you can see, they look a lot like their namesakes.