Seawall Campground, Acadia National Park
Friday morning we left South Paris, Maine for Acadia National Park where the youth group spent two days and one night camping at Seawall Campground, and visiting some places of interest on Mount Desert Island. Here's a report on our first day, including some pictures of Seawall, where we spent the afternoon climbing on the rocks and admiring the scenery.
Seawall campground wasn't our first choice of camping sites, because it is on the far south-west end of the island, and is far from most of the things we wanted to do. But it was still nice, once we got over the fact that our reservation had somehow been confused, and they thought we were camping Thursday night, and all the group sites were filled for Friday night. We ended up getting three smaller sites together instead of one big one, which was okay except that we had very little space to ourselves.
From the Seawall campground it's just a short hike down to the ocean, where the teens had a great time just climbing on the rocks and wading in the ocean. As you can see from the pictures below, we had beautiful weather, which was a nice change after last year's trip, when it rained all day Friday and Saturday.
After the teens got tired of wandering on the rocks and exploring, they discovered a fun and entertaining new pasttime - trying to break rocks by hurling them down on other rocks. As one of the leaders said, "Only in Maine can teenagers entertain themselves for hours throwing rocks at rocks."
Pete and Thom decided that they wanted to go a step beyond breaking rocks, and actually crush them...
They said that when they were done the resulting powder looked like the powdered sugar on donuts. So if any of our teens offer you a donut, politely refuse.
Back at the camp site Glen and Tiff cooked supper - hamburgers and hot dogs...
And of course everyone just loves those red hot dogs...
As I mentioned before, there was a bit of a mixup on the site reservation, so we ended up having to take individual camp sites instead of a group site, and it felt like we were packed in like sardines with other campsites. This meant that, although the teens had a great time improvising a song about pickles (you can see the inspiration for this wonderful improvisation in the foreground of the picture below) complete with harmonies and percussion...
Their musical career was cut short by the campsite staff, who explained that even though it wasn't quiet hours yet, they still had to be quiet.
So, we headed off for our tents around 9:30, so we could get a good night's sleep (ha ha
) and be ready for a busy day on Saturday. In my next entries I'll tell about our visits to the Bass Harbor Lighthouse and Sand Beach.Posted On Aug 28, 2005 at 5:10 AM
On Aug 28, 2005 Beth wrote: I'm a big fan of breaking rocks with rocks myself, in all honesty
Doug Replied: well idunno...I just got a comment from another reader that "altering the maine coastline" is illegal. So I'll have to check that one out, and maybe tell the teens if they want to break rocks another year they'll have to bring them with them!
(and of course take them home when they're done!)
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