Visit to Acadia National Park

The night before somehow, I couldn’t sleep. I supposed to get up early in the morning. To avoid crowd inside the park ,our plan was to start early. Anyway, we tried to start as soon as possible.

The weather was very sunny and warm. Though I took our jackets with us, we didn’t need those. Anyway, leaving the towns we started driving along the freeway. The both sides of the freeway were full of big trees, where fall just had started to come.

Gradually we entered narrow mountain road towards the national park. Among the pine, beech, birch, maple, pines trees we could seed  beautiful cottages. We passed the time admiring those cottages , and imagining our life there. We first went to the visitor center, the parking lot were not full, which gave us hope of less crowd. And the park was not much crowded indeed. Getting less crowd at any famous tourist spot is difficult. As the bus service inside the park  was already stopped, we set out in our car. Taking the car gave a much time to drive around, as we didn’t need to wait for the bus to go one spot to another.

We took the map from the visitor center, and followed the Ocean Highway. Our plan was to take a round trip around the park. Hiking was out of question, as we had only one day in our hand to visit the whole place. The nice warm and sunny day made it easier to explore all the nooks and corners of park full of hidden beautiful treasures for the nature lovers. It was a great experience  to driving on the winding mountain road with big granite rocks and trees, and on the other side the great Atlantic ocean. As soon as we started driving, the beautiful view of the ocean forced us to stop and take good look toward the horizon. The bright sun was shinning on the great blue rippling water which was splashing on the big rocks. At distant we could see few bungalows amid thickets. A big cruise ship came in our view.

 
Again we started driving. Mr. Man gave me the map, and I’m the person to whom rocket science is easier than reading a map. (really?) As usual, I made some mistakes, but fortunately we were on right route. Then he stopped relying on me. We were driving, and suddenly on lake came in our view. Again we couldn’t resist, but stopped there to take good look. Luckily, few spots were left to stop. I couldn’t find the name of the lake. 
That was a deep blue lake was residing with big mountains all around. The bright sunlight of the mid morning was shinning brightly, making million of inkling little stars on the water which were dancing ,as the gentle wind making small ripple on the calm water. I got down from car, and almost ran toward the like little child who found some treasures. I sat down on the stone beside the lake, and took deep breath of fresh air. Then I gazed to the crystal clear water, and saw tiny fish were swimming. I don’t know wether those were tiny fish or tadpole.

Mr. Man signaled me to come, as we had a lot of places to visit before heading to Bar Harbor. Again we stopped at… After a little hike, down the huge rocks we reached the Atlantic ocean. I always have great fear of falling down. So, climbing up I have no problem, but climbing down is always difficult for me. However, I couldn’t resist myself, and hiked down the rocks to reach the Atlantic Ocean. 

Then we came back to the car and again and drove towards the Thunder Hole. Again that was a little hike over the big rocks to reach the Atlantic Ocean. Thunder Hole was the last stop we got down to reach the ocean. Before that we stopped another two times. One point we could get the parking so drove forward. However, the spot we stopped we got the splendid view of the ocean. 

It was almost lunch time, and we decided to got to Bar Harbor, our next stop.

Next is coming our Bar Harbor visit.