Maine's Acadia National Park
After a short break, I'm at long last continuing the posts on our vacation to New Hampshire and Maine way back in the beginning of October! Hopefully I'll be able to wrap this trip up soon before I've forgotten everything that we saw! My last post on our trip covered a few of the lighthouses that we saw southwest of where we were staying near Camden (a lovely little town that I will hopefully be telling you more about before these posts are done!) whereas this post takes us further east to what I believe is one of the most beautiful parts of New England - Acadia National Park located along the rugged and rocky coast of "Downeast" Maine on Mount Desert Island. To get to Acadia from where we were staying in the small town of Lincolnville just east of Camden, we took Route 1 which took us over the Penobscot Narrows Bridge near Bucksport, Maine. The new bridge, which opened in December of 2006, replaced the old 1931 Waldo-Hancock Bridge (the first long-span sus...