Maine post script

 I love Edward Hopper paintings.  Here are links to his versions of the lighthouses that I posted earlier.  

Portland Head Light

and Two Lights 

Maine part 5

 After spending a few days in the east coast version of mountains, we wanted to spend some time at the beach.  I went into work one day (I go in once a week or so, always wearing a mask because we are taking this pandemic seriously in NYC), and I was telling my coworkers that I was going to Acadia for a few days and was looking for a place by the beach to go for the rest of the week.  Both of them said that they used to go to a small town called Ogunquit in Maine.  I went to my office and did a little research and by the end of the day, I had reserved a room at a little hotel in town.  

It has the feeling of typical beach town, with restaurants and T shirt stores.  We could walk from the hotel to the beach.  At the end of the street, we crossed over this little bridge over a river and at the end of the bridge was the beach.  The river was really cool for people to kayak or paddle board.  

Here's the river at lowtide.

Here's a short video at high tide:

Here's the beach in the morning.  It was a really nice beach, but I didn't get any good pictures.  

There is a cliff walk called the Marginal Way.  Here are some views from our walk, but if you look at the website there are lots of better ones. 

And that's summer 2020!

Maine part 4

 After some nice days in Bar Harbor, we drove south to go to the beach.  On the way, we stopped outside Portland and went to the two lighthouses there.  I went to these two a few years ago, but it was worth it to go back. The first one is in Cape Elizabeth and is also know as Two Lights.  There's not much to do at this stop, other than go to a little food stand and get a lobster roll, which we didn't do.  

Then we backtracked a little and went to the Portland Head Light, which is very recognizable, and for good reason.  This one, you are able to walk up to it and around it.  The first is the view as approaching from the parking lot.  

These are from the other side.  

Maine part 3

 Each night in Acadia, we would look at the map and see what trails or monuments we wanted to see the next day.  So to get ready for our last day, LT found something called Thunder Hole (and of course, I sang Thunder Road the whole time on the way there).  When we got there, we realized it was on the path during our first hike the first day, but we hadn't spent any time there.  Apparently, during high tide when the waves come in there is a loud noise.  We waited with many other people to hear the "thunder" but we didn't hear anything.  

After Thunder Hole, we went to see the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse.  We had read the night before, that there were two views-- one that was easy to get to, and one that was a little more difficult.  We also read that a family in the Coast Guard lives in the home and it specifically said, "Don't knock on the doors or the windows because you might be interrupting dinner."  We got a good laugh about that. Who would do that??  

Thought this typo was quite funny

So next we walked around to the other side and definitely saw what they were talking about.  I had to walk down on the rocks in order to get these pictures.  My main goal was not to get any people in my pictures, which was hard.  

After seeing the lighthouse, we found another hike that was close by.  Although it was still very pretty, we definitely saw the best parts of the park the first two days, so here are some random pictures.  

The last night in Bar Harbor was so beautiful, and the weather was perfect.

Maine part 2

 The second day we needed a bit of an easier hike so we went to Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park.  

During the walk, I started singing a part from the movie On Golden Pond that basically goes "On Golden Pond, On Golden Pond..."  and I learned that my friend has never seen it.  So when we got back to our hotel that night I found that it is currently on HBO Max, so we watched it.  

This was the beginning of the hike.  It was overcast, but I knew it was going to get better.  

As we walked, the sun came out and it was a perfect day.  

Maine part 1

My friend LT and I took a road trip up north to Acadia National Park.  

The first day, we did an extra long hike with ocean views and mountain views.  We probably should have done this in two days, but it was a nice day.  I put on sunscreen on my face and arms, but the back of my neck got super burned.  I was expecting to be under trees for the most part and did not expect to be so exposed.  That part was not fun, but the rest was fantastic.  We walked over ten miles the first day.  

At the end was this little beach.  I didn't know there would be a beach there, or we would have been prepared

That night, we went to dinner at this restaurant, which was recommended by the hotel staff.  The tables were all outside and there was plenty of space between each table.  We liked this sign with the lobsters taking a little bath.