Acadia - Loop Road - Thunder Hole

View from Thunder Hole. This is the image of Maine that I've always had in my head.

The tide was coming in when we were there early afternoon.

Russ & Mandy

Seaweed stuff & mussels

Seaweed stuff and barnacles

I took a ton of action shots of waves coming in.

Old Soaker, an island just off the coast.

Adam took the following pictures:

There was an impromptu photo shoot, with Russ as the model.

Waves coming into a crevase.

Anyway, we were at Thunder Hole late morning/early afternoon. Then we went into Bar Harbor for some amazing pizza at Geddy's, where even the grown-ups are encouraged to color on their placemat:

Then it was back to Thunder Hole. The water was much, much higher, in fact we couldn't sit in the same place we had been before we left (which I didn't think was that close to the water).

Mandy was the bravest of us all.

After spending quite a while at Thunder Hole, we moved along the Park Loop Road to Otter Cove, where I found my first piece of sea glass!!!

Little did we know this would start an obsession with us all...

Finally, here's a cute bridge on the way home:

It actually has three openings. The left one was I think for water, middle for cars, and the one on the right (top pic) for people.

This day accomplished FOUR things on my to-do list: take pictures (been happening all along), sit on a rocky coast for a while, climb a hill (well, sort of), and look for sea glass (the actual list does say "look for," not "find." See, I didn't want to get my hopes up)!