6.24.18. Sunday. Stueben, Maine.
Spent the day with John & Maryanne. Introduced them to geocaching with a guard rail cache and then a terrific visit to the town cemetery which was also a geocache location.
The locals have a custom of hanging caps near the tombstones – in one case, two caps hanging from a set of deer antlers stuck into the ground. Found the geocache, the graves of Robert & Faith’s family (the people that help with maintenance of John & Maryanne’s place), and a huge memorial to a young girl killed in a traffic accident that was both striking and very sad.
Then off to Acadia National Park – first stopping at a point across from a lighthouse near a Navy facility (for a cache we didn’t find), then Hoosick Point for an earthcache and a virtual, and then to Mount Desert Island, the the top of Cadillac Mountain, and Thunder Hole. Learned a lot about inclusions and erratics (geological). The scenery en route was stunning. Especially the lupine!
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| Lighthouse |
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| An erratic at Hoosick Point sitting on an inclusion |
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| Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park |
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| Thunder Hole, Acadia National Park |
Back to John & Maryanne’s house for dinner, laundry and packing.
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