{"id":7296,"date":"2016-10-05T00:26:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2016-09-19T00:27:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T00:27:11","slug":"next-stop-mountain-view-campground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=7296","title":{"rendered":"Next Stop: Mountain View Campground"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0Sullivan, 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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You could also view the mountain, way off in the distance.<\/p>\n

I saw some of my fellow campers rinsing some stuff off in a basin, and I went over to see what they were doing.<\/p>\n

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They were cleaning mussels that they had collected along the water’s edge!<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Looking across Mount Desert Narrows, you can see Cadillac Mountain, over in the other part of Acadia National Park.<\/p>\n

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I watched the lobster boats hauling lobster pots up and dropping them down again. They would circle around, in loops in the water.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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One boat leaves and another comes in.<\/p>\n

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The granite along the shore was striking.<\/p>\n

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There were incursions into the granite. Although all the rocks seemed hard, the incursions erodes faster.<\/p>\n

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This little patch seemed particularly artistic.<\/p>\n

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After that excursion, it was time to head back to camp.<\/p>\n

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Just in time for sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0Sullivan, Maine. Actually, I didn’t have a spot for the first night, but they said that I could boondock in their … Continue reading Next Stop: Mountain View Campground<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[668,667],"class_list":["post-7296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lobster-boats","tag-schoodic-peninsula"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7341,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7296\/revisions\/7341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}