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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Upper Marsh Creek From Spring Forest to Brentwood

Marsh Creek is a long tributary of Crabtree creek that runs over 5 miles from Spring Forest and Falls of the Neuse road SE to Crabtree at Yonkers Road beside the Beltline. With a quite unauspiscious beginning, it makes its way through a variety of neighborhoods before creating a large wetland where it meets Crabtree Creek. These pictures follow the creek from its headwaters (seen just below) to Brentwood Park, just west of Capital Boulevard.

Capital Boulevard glimpsed from Marsh Creek in Brentwood.

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March Snow on Buckeye Trail

Edge of landfill meadow at east end of Buckeye Trail.

baby beeches under pines

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Back home in Oakwood!

Pigeon House Branch Continued

Pigeon House Branch is a much-abused creek that drains the northwestern quadrant of downtown Raleigh. It criss-crosses Capital Boulevard from Peace Street to Crabtree Boulevard, and these pictures trace that path down to its mouth at Crabtree Creek.

The stone culvert just north of Peace Street.

Pigeon House is under there somewhere!

The 42 " pipe that delivers water from Fletcher Park to Pigeon House Branch.

Pigeon House between Capital and West Street.

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The earlier post covers Pigeon House from the Light Tower to Dennis Avenue.

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Pigeon House Branch at Johnny's Motel on Capital.

Pigeon at Flea Market on Capital Blvd.

Pigeon House under Crabtree Blvd at Capital.

Pigeon House at Sherwin-Williams on Crabtree Blvd.

Pigeon House Branch beside Crabtree Blvd., across from greenway parking lot.

Above, the mouth of Pigeon House at Crabtree from the greenway deck. Turning, you face Raleigh Swamp and the greenway deck below.

Raleigh Nature posts on Pigeon house Branch.

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