July 17 - Schoodic Point

Saturday, July 17 - More Acadia National Park

Schoodic Point

A section of Acadia National Park lies remote across Frenchman Bay from the main part of the park on Mount Desert Island. It is on the Schoodic peninsula. We left the Seawall campground in the morning to go explore Schoodic Point. While the point is only a few miles away by water, to get to it by car one must return to the Maine mainland and that makes getting there a day trip.

Along the way, we stopped at the Walmart in Ellsworth, ME, to buy a new laptop computer. The trusty old Toshiba laptop that has traveled with us on many long road trips was overheating so badly that it could not even complete a boot-up procedure before automatically shutting down because it was too hot. With Todd's excellent help via cell phone, we opted to buy a Sony Vaio laptop. Whew - I once again had a working computer and I could off-load pictures from the cameras! I mean, life does have its priorities.


View Schoodic Point in a larger map


We loved the Schoodic Point shore. This was the rock-bound coast of Maine that we had been hoping to see. Huge slabs and boulders of that pink granite. Some of the granite blocks had intrusions of black basalt that created striking patterns. Another plus, this part of the park is not so crowded.




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