Sand Beach
Maine Week Travelog #3
Acadia National Park - Monday, 14 Jun 2021, 6pm.
I presume it was the same, very unoriginal people who named a big meadow "Big Meadow" (see previous blog) that named our next stop along the park loop Sand Beach. It's a... beach... with sand.
We stopped unsure of how long of a trek it would be down to the beach. After all, weren't we up in the mountains? Ah, these coastal Maine mountains are not very big. The beach was only about 30 stair steps down from the parking lot. 😅
While this beach certainly lives up to its name (it's a beach with sand) it doesn't live up to what a lot of people expect from a beach. The weather's cool this afternoon, barely 60F (about 15° C), the water is frigid, and signs warn that strong currents will pull you away from shore if you go in the water. So, it's not a place to swim or sun yourself. But it is nice for photography while keeping one's clothes on... which is all I wanted to do.
We walked the width of the pocket beach. On the far side was an inlet to a pond.
Beyond the pond is The Beehive, a mountain we plan to climb while we're here this week. The views are supposed to be great, and the strenuous trail with rocky stair steps and iron rungs sunken into the stone make it seem exciting.
Speaking of exciting, there's a rocky staircase up & out the far side of the beach....
From down on the beach we could see people high up on the cliff above us. We wondered how they got there. Well, this trail looks like how. Time to go exploring!
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Acadia National Park - Monday, 14 Jun 2021, 6pm.
I presume it was the same, very unoriginal people who named a big meadow "Big Meadow" (see previous blog) that named our next stop along the park loop Sand Beach. It's a... beach... with sand.
We stopped unsure of how long of a trek it would be down to the beach. After all, weren't we up in the mountains? Ah, these coastal Maine mountains are not very big. The beach was only about 30 stair steps down from the parking lot. 😅
While this beach certainly lives up to its name (it's a beach with sand) it doesn't live up to what a lot of people expect from a beach. The weather's cool this afternoon, barely 60F (about 15° C), the water is frigid, and signs warn that strong currents will pull you away from shore if you go in the water. So, it's not a place to swim or sun yourself. But it is nice for photography while keeping one's clothes on... which is all I wanted to do.
We walked the width of the pocket beach. On the far side was an inlet to a pond.
Beyond the pond is The Beehive, a mountain we plan to climb while we're here this week. The views are supposed to be great, and the strenuous trail with rocky stair steps and iron rungs sunken into the stone make it seem exciting.
Speaking of exciting, there's a rocky staircase up & out the far side of the beach....
From down on the beach we could see people high up on the cliff above us. We wondered how they got there. Well, this trail looks like how. Time to go exploring!
[This entry was cross-posted from https://canyonwalker.dreamwidth.org/72829.html. Please comment there using OpenID. That's where most of the action is!]