Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Mt. Desert Isle: Day 2

Sunday was another perfect sunny day on Mt. Desert Isle. We -- my brother, sister, niece and I -- took a middling hike up Parkman and Bald Mountains, with views  like this.

These tracks are quartz veins intruded into the granite mass of the mountain when this rock was still far below the earth's surface. The 350-million-ear-old granite mass of the island is cut at various places with dykes of quartz, basalt, and other stones.

Lichen-covered rocks on the trail up Penobscott Mountain. The moss, lichens and ferns are the second best thing about hiking on Mt. Desert, after the views.

And then ice cream in Bar Harbor, where they have at least three places as good as any I have been in. It was a great day.

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