Acadia National Park: Part 2

How to skip stones

1. Pick your stone. It should be smooth and flat.
2. Put your index finger against the edge of the stone and hold the flat sides of the rock with your thumb and middle finger on either side.
3. Flick the stone across the surface of the water with a sharp wrist movement.
4. Keep trying.

Saturday


We awoke with sore and achey legs on Saturday morning. But today, our legs would get some rest, because today, we would be going sea kayaking! We drove back down to Bar Harbor, over to Coastal Kayaking Tours where we all got outfitted with various gear necessary for kayaking out at sea. Praneetha and I shared a kayak, with her sitting up front and me in the back operating the rudder. d

We are Bostonians. We do not believe in giving right of way, even in the water. 

Nobody capsized, but we still managed to get soaked with seawater after Vishnu and Manoj found a water pump and sprayed us all. I wish I had pictures of our epic battle, but I think we were all afraid of getting our cameras wet.

See the island in the back? 6 hours later, we would WALK to it after the tide went down.

We returned to our hotel rooms to shower, desalt our clothes, and consume grilled cheese sandwiches. We couldn't figure out how to spend the rest of the afternoon - biking, hiking the Precipice, or walking along the shore and taking it easy. It was 5 PM by the time we finally decided to head out to Bar Island. Bar island is an island half the time - meaning it is surrounded by water during high tide, but when it's low tide, you can walk (or drive!) right to it from the harbor. And the coolest part was that we had been kayaking on that water just that morning! The miracles of nature.

We had been kayaking on this ground 6 hours ago!

After Bar Island, we went over to Jordan Pond House, where we walked along the trails next to the lakes. During this trek we played contact (yes, that game), rapid-fire style. When we returned to Jordan Pond House, we indulged in tea, crumpets, and a glorious seafood dinner. This time, we had fresh seafood: shrimp, lobster, mussels, and scallops. Yum.

Shrimp, lobster, and scallops

Mussels! 

So many musselsss

Stuffed to the brim, we headed home. For the second night in a row, I was asleep before my head hit the pillow. Nothing cures insomnia like a day of craziness. 

Sunday

Today would be our last day in Acadia, but there was no way we would leave Maine without biking. Sindhu, Ramya, Prasant, Manoj, Vishnu and I all rented some mountain bikes which we took onto the Acadia Carriage Roads. Carriage roads were originally meant for horse drawn carriages, but I guess everyone uses them for biking (though we did see a horsedrawn carriage while we were biking!). We biked a huge loop from Bar Harbor to Jordan Pond House and all the way back, stopping a few times in between to admire the ocean view or take pictures.

Biking break next to the lake. That rhymed. 

We rendezvoused with our parents after biking, and picnicked next to the lake for our lunch. And just when we were finished, right on cue, it started raining. And that's when we knew it was time to go home. Because I am stupid, I never brought my camera to take pictures. Sindhu however has a professional photography camera, and if I can get some of those pictures, I will upload them for certain.

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