I couldn’t believe how hard it was to find a camp site for the weekend during the high season in Maine. I used my various apps and ended up finally finding a spot in Sullivan, Maine. Actually, I didn’t have a spot for the first night, but they said that I could boondock in their parking lot for $5.
They called while I was en route and told me that they did have a spot for me after all. At $40 a night, I would have been just as happy to boondock in the parking lot.
However, they were quite friendly and were happy to have me, as long as I paid in cash. I had water and electric hook ups, and I was pretty close to the water.
You could also view the mountain, way off in the distance.
I saw some of my fellow campers rinsing some stuff off in a basin, and I went over to see what they were doing.
They were cleaning mussels that they had collected along the water’s edge!
Amazing! I ran into the woman later and asked how they turned out. She said that they put them in a marinara sauce and they were delicious.
I took a drive over the the Schoodic Peninsula part of Acadia National Park. Since I had booked a campsite near the main portion of the park for later, I decided to save that for when I was camped at Bass Harbor.
Looking across Mount Desert Narrows, you can see Cadillac Mountain, over in the other part of Acadia National Park.
I watched the lobster boats hauling lobster pots up and dropping them down again. They would circle around, in loops in the water.
It is so cool to watch the circles persisting in the water. At one point, I saw a series of circles stretching out behind them.
One boat leaves and another comes in.
The granite along the shore was striking.
There were incursions into the granite. Although all the rocks seemed hard, the incursions erodes faster.
This little patch seemed particularly artistic.
After that excursion, it was time to head back to camp.
Just in time for sunset.