Friday, August 7, 2015
The kids left this morning for their trek back to Wisconsin, so we're home alone again. We had a truly wonderful time with them.  Of course MY son said it was like 'driving Miss Daisy around'!  He hasn't lost his sense of humor. We had decided that as long as we are still getting beautiful weather, that we would strike off for Schoodic Peninsula, which is east of Mount Desert Island.  We had to go back to Ellsworth and take Hwy. 1 east and then down into the peninsula.  It was well worth the trip.  We relied on our geo-caching to help us find the most interesting places and it didn't let us down. It took us through quaint little villages along the seaboard, and it exposed us to some beautiful scenery along the coast.  We saw 3 lighthouses, watched the tide come in on a rugged shoreline, even saw a place where the tide comes in and causes a tidal falls.  It is quite an interesting place.  When the tide come in, the falls flow to the north, and when the tide goes out, the falls reverse and fall to the south!  Amazing, but true!  We stopped and ate at Ruth and Wimpy's on our way home.  It was okay, but we wouldn't go back.  The wild blueberry pie was delicious, however.  There are wild blueberries all over the place here at this time, and people are out picking them.  They are much smaller than the commercially grown blueberries, but they are so delicious!

                      This is the lighthouse on Mark Island, on the western side of Schoodic Peninsula.

      This lighthouse is located in Sand Cove, which is in the southeastern part of the peninsula.

Our geo-cache took us to this area, which was very rugged shoreline and at one time, it had to be very hot to meld these two types of rock together.  The lighter stone is granite and the darker stone is diabase dikes.  You can see that the granite is a much harder stone as it doesn't erode as quickly as the diabase dikes does.  We learn so much with geo-caching!  We spotted some seals off the shore today, as the tide was coming in.

This is the location of the Sullivan Tidal Falls.  We were an hour away from high tide, and we didn't really want to stay and see it 'reverse', with the low tide.  We wouldn't have found this place without geo-caching.