Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park - Oct 7, 2011

This is the bridge to Fort Knox. (An actual Fort in the Penobscot Narrows south of Bangor, Maine.)    There is a lookout on one of the spires...but you have to walk several hundred steps...no elevator.  This was on our way to the Acadian National Forest.

We took a tour...we have been doing that when we want the "naturalist" narration of the area.  There's no way you can gather all of the history on a "do it yourself" tour.  The Acadian National Forest  is a granite mountain...pink granite.  The views were awesome.  The 'rock' looked strange...shapes unlike what we've seen before.

I sent a "joking" comment to the family that we had found our new home.  :-)  A tepee from the tribes - pre-invasion by the English.

The interesting thing about the whole adventure at the Acadian National Park, was that we heard (once again) about the folks who came from Europe and settled in this area.  The area was not defined as Maine...and the area of Maine plus New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, was a large area that was being fought over by the English and the French.  One of the English rulers didn't like the immigrants, and deported them to places unknown...and they ended up in Lafayette LA...and we know them now as the Cajuns.  Interesting to hear the story from both ends of the story.  

We had lunch on the wharf...lobster bisque...or clam chowder...but we got a close-up pic of the big pots they use to cook the lobsters.  You can assume that every lunch and dinner in Maine was lobster or clam related.