Lassiter Mill Dam with High Water

This clip was taken at Lassiter Mill dam in Raleigh on Friday December 4th after scattered and sometimes torrential rains during the week.

Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island

bald eagle on Bar Harbor island

Cara and I went to Bar Harbor the last week in June, staying at Emory's Cottages on upper Frenchman's Bay. We visited Acadia National Park and covered a lot of the less famous features of Mount Desert Island as well. Below is the Bass Harbor lighthouse, located at the southeast corner of the island. This post, part one of two, covers the interior of the island and views from Cadillac Mountain. Part Two covers our cottage's beach, our boat trips and Indian Point nature preserve. The naturalist essay based on these pictures is at Raleigh Nature.

Don't forget - all pics click to enlarge!

John Dancy-Jones (author) at Bass Harbor, Maine

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Otter Cliffs by Cara Dancy-Jones

scoters off Otter Cliffs

Thunder Hole

hottest tourist spot in Acadia National Park

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Acadia interior creek

close-up of beaver dam by Cara

frog in Abbe' Garden, Acadia National park

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Trail up Dorr Mountain, named for the founder of Acadia National Park. He, Rockefeller and others just bought up the island farm by farm and gave it to the Park.

Cara on Dorr Mountain trail

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We had a wonderful carriage ride in Acadia National Park, on some of the 47 miles of carriage roads designed and built by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose anti-automobile covenant on his magnificent donation protects the park to this day. Our driver was a horseman from Pennsylvania who uses these horses for logging in the winter and drives eight of them to Acadia each summer for some productive exercise!

Mr. Rockefellers's Depression bridge

carriage ride brook by Cara

the Bubble Mountains

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Cara and I are both point-n-shoot folks, but she has a better camera and a wonderful eye for natural beauty. This "photo painting" is her trimmed zoom of some cliff flowers. All of the photos she took in this post are clearly labeled so. Thanks, baby-baby!

bearberries by Cara

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Eagle Lake, Acadia National Park

summit of Cadillac Mountain

Acadia National Park, Maine

Cadillac Mountain granite

Bar Harbor from Cadillac Mountain

Porcupine Islands from Cadillac Mountain

Otter Point from Cadillac Mountain

This is upper Frenchman's Bay from Cadillac Mountain. We stayed at Sand Point, the triangular protrusion just to the right of center. That beach and other adventures from our week at Bar Harbor are covered in Part Two of this photo post.

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Acadia and Mount Desert Island, Part Two

Cara and I spent the last week of June at Mount Desert Island and Bar Harbor, Maine. We stayed at Emory's Cottages on Sand Point of Frenchman's Bay. This view of low tide is from the shore of our cottage site. This second picture post covers Sand Point, our boat trips, and Indian Point nature preserve.

sunset kayakers on Frenchman's Bay

Cara's tidal pool close-up

starfish pictures by Cara

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Sand Point cave

Sand Point cliff with natural bridge

Sand Point geology

Mount Desert Island, Maine

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Bar Harbor schooner

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Great Head from whalewatching boat

Mount Desert Island, Maine

Bar Harbor island geology

natural bridge

bald eagle on Bar Harbor island

Egg Island lighthouse, Bar Harbor, Maine

Egg Island seals

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oceangoing bird

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Mount Desert Rock, Maine

Lighthouse is 25 miles out to sea.

grey seal in water

Cara's seal picture

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Indain Point, home to largest population

of harbor seals north of Boston.

Indian Point Nature Preserve

Mount Desert Island, Maine

old man's beard by Cara

dock meadow at Indian Point

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red beech at Seal Harbor, Maine

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lobster trap display

pregnant lobster at hatchery

Oceanarium, Bar Harbor, Maine

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Long Pond from a canoe
Acadia National Park

Long Pond from marshy area

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Cara's cormorant

foggy island in Bar Harbor

Somes Sound waterfall

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