Trip North - Maine - Acadia Bar Island Hike

Gary says he is up to joining Tucson and me on 

the Bar Island Hike.  It is available for only a 3 hour window,

1.5 hours before and after low tide.

Low tide is 10:15 a.m. so we take the 8:28 bus to Town

It is a sunny but cool morning

 Tucson takes the time to smell the flowers

I look out to the water and think the water is still pretty high 

for a hike across to that Island

 Bar Harbor does a beautiful job with flowers all around town

 Almost there!

 

Relieved to see a sand bar ahead

 It's a pretty wide sand bar and tide is still going out.

 Don't recommend losing track of time if you park on the sand bar

 We reach the trail to a view point on the island

 See a couple of deer on the way

 2/10  of a mile to go

 Hopefully the final ascent

 Sucess!

 A view back to the sand bar

 We run into the Bar Harbor chapter of the Tucson Fan Club

 We head back and come across Milkweed plants with (hopefully) Monarch Butterfly caterpillars.

 Back to the sand bar.  The tide is just starting to come back in.  Those cars have an hour and a half to move.

 I stop and check out what is left of tidal pools

 Lots of barnacles

 We head back into town

 and wait for our bus back

 When we get back to the campground we see a Maine Dog Agility group 

has set up at the campground

 Tucson says can I play!?

Sorry Tucson doesn't start until tomorrow.  Maybe we can check it out in

the morning.