Hi HO Hi HO, its a Hiking we will go...But first

Hey tour guide, why are we awake at 03:15 AM?  We are off to watch the sunrise on Cadillac Mountain.  It's the first place to watch the sunrise in the US.  Oh now I get it, Mrs. tour guide wants to do this, so we are all awake at o'dark thirty.  KW, just get dressed.

Dawn.


Mrs. tour guide, why are we watching the sun come up backwards.


CJ, I'm not sure this is worth getting up at 3:15 AM, but it is awe inspiring.


Tour guide, look, here comes the sun.  Hey, I think this could be a song.  Listen to this tour guide.  Here comes the sun (doo doo doo doo).  Here comes the sun, and I say it all right.  Stop right there KW.  Oh great, I guess it is already a song.  Who beat me to this one?  The Beatles KW.






Hiking the ocean path in Cadillac Mountain in Acadia.










Looking for sea glass on Bar Island.


Low tide.


High tide.


Mrs. tour guide, KW & CJ getting stamps at Thunder Hole and Cadillac Mountain.






PS:

Acadia National Park has many claims to fame.  It was the first national park east of the Mississippi.  It's the second most visited east of the Mississippi (more than 2.4 million visitors last year).  It's the only one to boast miles of carriage trails fit for and built by John D. Rockefeller Jr.  But possibly the best reason to visit Acadia, on the wild and rocky coast of Maine, is the sight of sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, the highest peak on the Eastern Seaboard.

Many visitors believe the 1532 foot peak on Mount Desert Island offers the first sight of sunrise in the continental United States.  They're right some of the time.  For half the year, roughly from the second week in October through the first week of March Cadillac's height and costal perch make it the first place in the easternmost state where the sun appears.

For the rest of the year, Cadillac's sunrise is not first.  That honor goes, from late March through mid-September, to Mars Hill (a 1748 foot mountain) near winter, the sun rises farther to the south.  Sunrise moves along the horizon during the warmer months.

Dawn occurs before sunrise, before the top of the Sun reaches the horizon.  Astronomical Dawn is the point at which it becomes possible to detect light in the sky, when the sun in 18 degrees below the horizon.

Awe inspiring: arousing awe through being impressive, formidable, or magnificent.

Bar Island: is a tidal island across from Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine.  The uninhababited island forested mostly in pine and birch is now part of Acadia National Park.  There are walking trails on the island.  At low tide, the island becomes accessible by foot or by all terrain type vehicle across a natural gravel land bridge.

Today we hiked 9 miles, 20,550 steps, and 26 floors, hills, rocks, etc climbed.  KW is worn out.

Hey tour guide, we are tired.  Thanks for these robes to relax in, but couldn't they be a little smaller?


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