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Acadia National Park Photo Adventure Fred Haaser October 16, 2013

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Acadia National Park Photo Adventure

Fred Haaser October 16, 2013

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Acadia National Park Facts Located in Maine next to Bar Harbor, consists of 73 square miles of which 47

square miles is on Mount Desert Island.

First seen by French navigator, cartographer, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler Samuel de Champlain in 1604

George Dorr (along with father Charles) supported the idea of a park, achieving a federal status in 1916 administered by the National Park Service; originally named Lafayette National Park after the Marquis but changed to Acadia NP in 1929 in honor of the former French colony of Acadia.

John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed, designed, and directed the construction of the 50 miles of gravel carriage trails throughout the park from 1915 thru 1933 (cut granite stones places along the edges act as guard rails or coping stones).

Fire of 1947 burned 10,000 acres in about a month consuming much of Maine’s forest.

Park includes mountains, ocean shoreline, woodlands, and lakes.

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Mount Desert Island Region

Drive up I-95 or fly into Bangor & rent a car

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Mount Desert Island – General Area

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Many Photo Ops Bar Harbor

Great Head Cliff

Otter Creek Cliff

The Beehive

Seal Harbor

Northeast Harbor

Cadillac Mtn

Cranberry Is.

Carriage Trails

Eagle Lake

The Bubbles

Jordan Pond

Thunder Hole

Somesville Bridge

Bar Island

Margaret Todd Ship

Asticou Garden

Bass Harbor Lighth.

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Bar Harbor

Little Red House

Rick & OVCC

Members

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Visited with Brother Chuck & Fellow Cincypaddler Henry D

and

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And

these

Lovely

Ladies!

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Locations Paddled

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The Ovens

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Margaret Todd Schooner

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Thunder Hole

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Pretty Marsh Forest

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Cadillac Mountain Sunrise

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Jordan’s Breakfast Restaurant, Bar Harbor >

< Pretty Marsh Forest

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Eagle Lake

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Bass Harbor Lobster Dock

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Bass Harbor Lighthouse

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Bass Harbor

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Eagle Lake House Foundation

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Cadillac Mountain Sunrise

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Cadillac Mountain Foggy Sunrise

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Great Head Cliffs

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Otter Point Cliffs

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Otter Point Cliffs

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Northeast Harbor

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Bar Harbor Sunset

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Thanks for Watching!

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