Acadia National Park - Part 3

Ok, last Acadia post!  

We woke up super early in the morning to go to Cadillac Mountain to watch the sunrise.  We had to set our alarms for like 4am or something (maybe earlier?  I can't remember exactly) because we had to be AT the top of Cadillac mountain by 5am for the sunrise. It was freeeezing cold, but oh my gosh there are no words to explain how beautiful it was.  Oh, and Cadillac Mountain is one of the first spots in the U.S. to see the sunrise!  Isn't that cool?? 

 After watching an amaaazing sunrise, we went into town to have breakfast, and then we went on a few more hikes! One of the hikes was over to Bar Island, because during low tide there's a little bar of land that appears so you can walk over to Bar Island from Bar Harbor!  You just have to keep an eye on the time when you're on the island, because if you stay there too long the tide will rise and you'll have to wait until the next low tide! Craziness.  It was really fun though! 

It's hard to see, but this picture was taken from Bar Island, so you can see the little bar of land over to the left, and across the water is Bar Harbor.  Not the best picture!!

After hiking back from Bar Island, we drove to the trailhead for the Bubble Rock trail.  Bubble Rock is a big ol' boulder that's balanced on the edge of a cliff!  The hike to the trail was pretty lovely.

Handsome McGee!  And that's Bubble Rock! There's more pictures so you can tell how big it is. 

There we go!  Kevin is standing to the right of it.  It's a pretty big boulder! 

Boulder Rock and Kevin again! 

Gorgeous view

 After a few more hikes and some hanging out in Bar Harbor for a bit, we went back to our campsite to hang out for our last night of camping!  We knew we were going to wake up pretty early to do the big Beehive Trail.

Perfection!

 In the morning we packed up all of our sleeping bags, tent, etc and drove to the trailhead for Beehive Trail!  Beehive is a big one, because there are lots of metal ladders and metal bars and stuff that you have to use to pull yourself up parts of the mountain.  We got a nice early start, and it was SO MUCH FUN.  There was only one part where I was like, "Hmm... I don't feel safe and steady right now", but I just needed a few extra seconds to figure out the best way to pull myself up, and then it was fine!  There were amazing views during the WHOLE hike, so that made it really fun too! 

This was like a barbecue grate that you had to walk on... In the next picture you can get a better view of where it was.  

Can you see where the barbecue grate is? This was after I had crossed it.  It's right in the middle of the picture. 

Look at that view! 

Look at that dropoff! 

 That was the end of our Acadia National Park adventures!  After we finished Beehive Trail, we started our drive to Boothbay!  I'll do one last post tomorrow to wrap up our Maine trip!