A quick post from Acadia National Park

Yesterday was an incredible day, blue skies, perfect temps, and a slight breeze.  We took advantage of it by running down to Jordan Pond to get a jump on the  3.2 mile trail around the pond.  We wanted to be ahead of the throngs of people later in the day and we wanted to get back between 11 and 11:30 when the Jordan Pond House restaurant opened to get our popovers.  It worked perfectly!

The trail begins

Raised logs for about a half mile

Looking back to the Jordan Pond House

The "Bubbles"

What a day!

The far end of the pond

A cute bridge

Making our way back

It was a fantastic hike around the pond, not many people, but boy, no one is particularly friendly up here in New England?  Hurt most of them to even say hmmm, let alone good morning.  Oh well, we didn't care, we were loving being out and enjoying nature.

Then back to have lunch outside overlooking the pond in a lovely meadow.  We had a delicious meal with the famous popovers and fresh homemade jam.  In addition Jan had a cup of seafood chowder and lobster and crab cakes, while I had a bowl of lobster stew and a side salad, all topped off with fresh blueberry lemonade!  Sweet!

Jan's lobster and crab cakes

My lobster stew, salad, and half eaten popover

We relaxed outside for awhile then drove up to the top of Cadillac Mountain, and then around the loop road.  When I was a kid a million years ago, my family found a little no name beach back then, Jan and I found it again on our honeymoon, so we decided to take a look for it again.  It's named now, Little Hunter's Beach, but it was as beautiful and peaceful as it ever was.

"Our" little beach

So now we are paying for the gorgeous day yesterday with drizzle and rain, so we are taking it easy today, and will be heading even farther east tomorrow.