To NORTHEAST!
May 14-16 2023
PART 9
A one-way stretch of High Street in Ellsworth, Maine, has ME 3 southeast.
ME 3 whisks us to one of the highlights of this trip, so hang on to your spleen!
I'm not sure what this is, but I know it pibs the crazy Maine way.
At some point, we enter Acadia National Park. Not Arcadia - like the radical Duran Duran splinter group - but Acadia. I always wanted to visit Acadia because it was first in an alphabetical list of national parks in a road atlas.
Acadia National Park is situated mostly on a group of beautiful islands off the Maine coast. Acadia remains the only national park in the Northeast. The park saw record attendance in 2021, after people delayed their visits because of Maine's fascism in 2020.
The one-way Park Loop Road goes under this gorgeous bridge for ME 3.
This may be looking out over the Atlantic Ocean. The small island may be Egg Rock, but I'm not sure.
I'm not sure here.
I think this is Sand Beach. It allows swimming, but the water is very cold year-round. It's a popular beach in summer though.
Park Loop Road follows the coast nicely for several miles.
Visitors lurk on the road's rocky edge.
Thunder Hole gives us another view of Homer Simpson's "land the law forgot."
We pan over to the left to peep Old Soaker and the Sand Beach area.
Back on Park Loop Road!
Park Loop Road has this little causeway at Otter Cove.
Park Loop Road continues.
At some point, we start running parallel to Hunters Brook.
Another bridge for ME 3.
We go under the Triad-Day Mountain Bridge.
The Bubbles! And Bubble Rock! Like how you buy bubble gum and you blow bubbles with it.
This could be Eagle Lake, but I'm not sure.
Pretty sure this is from Cadillac Summit Road, looking way out over Frenchman Bay.
Probably looking out over Eagle Lake.