Morning in Acadia National Park

We started our day with a full breakfast at Cafe This Way, and then departed for Acadia National Park for some moderate hiking. The park is America's first national park on the East Coast, established in 1916, and consists of 47,000 acres on Maine's Mount Desert Island. Its landscape is marked by woodland, rocky beaches, and glacier-scoured granite peaks such as Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the United States’ East Coast. It is an amazing and wonderful place, and definitely worth a visit.

I dropped Suzanne off at Sand Beach for a less strenuous hike, and then drove the car to the trail head for the Gorham Mountain trail, a 1.8 mile out and back trail to the summit of - yes, you guessed it - Gorham Mountain. At the bottom of the Gorham Mountain trail, Conor continued to the car to meet Clare and Suzanne, and I continued on the Otter Cove trail and Otter Cove where I was picked up on the Park Loop Drive.