But wait, there's more!
A walk to the beach passed a grove of pine trees with extremely short needles. Lovely, compact, trees, they only grew in one area near the rocky shore.
The docking facility in Prospect Harbor was a picture postcard!
We took off on a side road to the village of Corea. Again, it is a true New England fishing village, with wooden docks that receive the catch of the day early in the morning. We stopped at The Wharf, a small carry out, and got two Lobster Rolls, Coleslaw, and Iced Tea. They have a small portion of a working wharf set aside with tables so we got Sasha out of the car and enjoyed a light lunch in the fresh sea air.
Returning to our "camp", we stopped where the Taunton River meets the Atlantic Ocean to take a look at another "Reversing Falls" area. The Taunton River flows into the Atlantic, meeting the returning tide in a jumble of currents. Originally an area where granite was quarried, a deep channel was dredged so that Schooners could sail upriver to load the stone. Now abandoned, the channel contains the majority of the water, but toward the shoreline, the reversing "falls" are evident.
The Schoodic Byway is 27 miles of historic architecture, piers stacked high with lobster traps, clammers knee deep in mud, and a largely undiscovered portion of Acadia National Park. Fishing and boat building are the dominate industries these days as the lumbering, granite quarrying and small-scale gold and silver mining are no longer around. Of course, tourism is a component as well, with B&B's and restaurants available to enjoy. This is a wonderfully beautiful and quiet part of Maine's coast, away from the hustle and bustle of Bar Harbor and Mount Desert Island.
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