Mount Desert Island (day 1)

Bar Harbor map

The little strip of land is passable at low tide


Left Stadig around 10:20 to head towards Portland for some errands, then Mount Desert Island (most of which is Acadia National Park). Raining again. Both the national park campgrounds (Seawall and Blackwoods) were full, so we ended up at Hadley Point Campground. Nice enough campground, but horribly crowded! OK, the whole island felt crowded, which is to be expected in mid-August, but this was simply nuts.

But, the sun finally came out just in time for dinner, and that was mighty fine! We’ve got plenty of camping food, but I was craving fish so we went downtown to Bar Harbor for dinner at Chowdah’s. Their “sunset menu”, 2 for $22, can’t be beat!

We then went down to a check out the beautiful sunset from a lookout point (indicated with red arrow). Early to bed.

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