Quick! The Sun's Out!

We've had so much rain and cool weather lately, that the crickets think it's already fall. Seriously. I can here them outside singing away. Jeesh.

But today was a gorgeous day. 82 degrees. Bright sunshine and blue skies. Whoa! Quick! Throw the kayaks up on the car! Pack our hiking boots and water bottles! Hurry. Hurry. We don't want the sun to disappear.

We drove to one of our favorite places to paddle -- Seal Cove Pond. It's about 10 minutes from our house and it's part of Acadia National Park. It's simply lovely. Quiet. Pristine. Can you imagine anything more peaceful?






If anyone had EVER tried to tell me when I was younger that one day I would LOVE to kayak, I'd tell them they were CRAZY! But let me tell you . . . I LOVE IT! Can you tell??






After we kayaked and tied the boats back up on the car, we headed to Flying Mountain. It's a wonderful hike on our side of the island that gives you a tremendous reward for relatively little effort. The trail is kind of "rooty" in the beginning but soon turns more rocky. It was rather muddy in spots due to the recent monsoons but we spotted some fat rain-plumped blueberries . The views of Somes Sound were just fabulous! Look --- all those white dots on the water are sailboats.


This is a "loop trail" which means that you don't go down the same way you came up. Al wanted to be sure that we visited another outlook farther along the trail. It's always a bonus when you get TWO or more outlooks along the way -- quite honestly, that's one of the best parts of ANP. So many breath-taking views along any of dozens of trails. So we headed down the path to the outlook. . . I think it should have been called a "Look out!" Yup. A red fox. Isn't he beautiful?


The trail continued after our brief encounter with Mr. Fox -- it lead us to Valley Cove. It's a beautiful spot in Somes Sound where some very wealthy people moor their very big boats.






And the last part of the trail, reconstructed in recent years, was just gorgeous! Many of the ANP trails are constructed and maintained by volunteers (Friends of Acadia) -- pretty impressive. Look at this!

Hope there's more sun tomorrow. . .