Off island...

There is a part of Acadia National Park that is located on the mainland, off from Mount Desert Island: the Schoodic Peninsula.  It gets much less visitation compared to the part of the park on MDI.  Today, we were off to the Schoodic Peninsula.

Some pretty views part way down the peninsula...

Obligatory selfie...

Joan wants some photos of the rock for wall decor at home, so she is the main photographer today...

Further down the peninsula, to Schoodic Point...

That is Cadillac Mountain to the west, the north Atlantic to the east.  Nice views all around.

Thanks to the timer...

Looking for rock views...

Now you see it...

Now you don't...

Yeah, I was there, too...

Time to eat.  Time to find a place that will have lobster for Joan and anything else for me.  Nice view from our table...

I put a toy lobster in front of Joan so we could send a photo to Steph...

"Is that real??  Why isn't it on a plate?  I'm kinda grossed out."  More dialog ensued, including me describing how Joan was engaged in hand-to-claw combat with the lobster.  Joan won...

The waitress pointed to a boat we could see out the window... "That red and white boat is my Dad's.  Your lobster was in this water two hours ago - it doesn't get any fresher than that!"

My calzone was good, too, thanks for asking.  I tore it open and ate the innards, also.

A nice ride back to the coach, with a stop to take in this dolphin statue...

Little Izzy was ready for a walk when we got home.  Into the woods...

We truly enjoyed the Schoodic Peninsula - we saw dozens of people instead of thousands.  The views were striking.  Not a t-shirt shop anywhere.  Oh, and plenty of rock photos (these were just a small sample)... the coastline of Maine is rugged.  Unforgiving.  It would be some very interesting boating here.  More workboats and fewer recreational powerboats.  More sailboats than we've seen in quite a while, though.

It only got up to about 65º degrees, and we didn't see any blue sky until late afternoon.  People are saying, "This isn't typical."  Yeah, we hear that a lot.  ;-)