S. M. Garver - Acadia National Park

Rock scenes at Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor, Maine
May 22-25, 2011
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A cairn is a stone structure built to guide hikers along a trail. Some of the cairns in the park are more than 100 years old.
[A large stone sits cross-wise atop two large support stones. A small arrow-shaped stone sits atop the cross-wise stone and points the direction of the trail.]

Bubble Mountains
[Two round-top mountains right beside each other looking like the back of a two humped camel sit beside a lake. The sky is completely overcast which helps outline the lumps of the mountains.]

Granite surface of Cadillac Mountain
[Large broken rock expanses with islands in bay seen in the distance and clouds overhead.]

Stone hillside on Park Loop Road
[Jagged rock pieces jutting from the hillside which is topped with smaller evergreens. The road is in the foreground.]

Another hillside on Park Loop Road
[Jagged rocks jutting from a hillside with more vegetation than the prior photo. These rocks look more likely to come off the hillside than the ones in the prior photo.]

Shoreline rocks high above the pounding surf
[Salmon colored granite rough-hewn from the weather.]

Lower part of these rocks will be covered in high tide while the sharp lines in the upper appears to have been carved by broken ice or other rocks.
[Salmon colored rock at the shores edge with deeply grooved horizontal and slanted straight lines. Bottom of rock is algae covered.]

Close view of the granite shoreline
[Grey granite chipped and broken by water in its many forms. A small tidepool is visible.]

Shore near the Wonderland Trail
[Granite chunks (1-2 feet in size) littering the shoreline with tall everygreens at the shore and puffy white clouds in the blue sky.]

This is part of Beech Cliffs trail.
[A hillside with trees and rocks and a barely discernable trail.]

Northeast Harbor gate lodge (a relic of the original carriage road entrances to the park)
[Several photos stitched together showing a wooden gate stretched between two round, cone-topped stone structures with stone fence and building continuing to the sides.]

One of the many carriage roads in the park seen on a rainy, misty morning.
[Looking down a tree-lined road which curves to the right in the distant fog.]

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