Today is Brought to You by the Color Blue

Cool this morning when I got up at 7:45...41* but bright and sunny!

Beautiful morning at Edgewater No. 6

It was only 30* at home so I suspect the remaining gazillion cherry tomatoes were probably frozen ;o(  

We left the cottage at 10:25 (56*) and headed toward Echo Lake to climb the Beech Cliff Ladder Trail.  We did this trail in 2013 and enjoyed it, although I was really nervous, based on the trail guide description.  They kind of overdid the "caution" factor.  

We arrived at Echo Lake around 10:50.  It was surprisingly fairly quiet.  It's one of the few lakes in Acadia where you can swim, although I think it might have been too chilly for that today, at least for me.

Left the trailhead at 11:03

Choices...choices...

We chose to see the overlook, which doesn't go anywhere except to the Beech Cliffs and nice views.

Echo Lake Beach

Echo Lake

It's beginning to look like fall...

This is even mentioned in the trail guide

and they aren't kidding!

It literally grows sideways.

Then we came to the first of four ladders.

I totally prefer ladders to iron rungs.

The summit isn't much farther.  We reached it only 45 minutes after starting.  When we climbed this in 2013, it took us 40 minutes so we haven't slowed down too much.  Bill pointed out...not even one minute a year!  Yay Us ;o)

We walked around the Beech Cliff Loop, only .4 of a mile but the views are awesome.  This is looking out toward the ocean but I can't figure out which islands these are.

Echo Lake Beach

Echo Lake and Somes Sound in the background

Panorama

This little red squirrel was super cute, munching away.  I took a video but, alas, can't figure out how to get it into the blog.  That's a project for another time...

Back to the summit and heading down, via the Canada Cliffs Trail.

We stopped here for lunch; it was the only place with a view.

Most of this trail was restored in the past few years.  I liked the way it goes through this tree.

We were back to the car at 1:40, 58*.  It sounds cold but it felt warm, thanks to the sun.

We left there and drove to Seawall to watch the waves, created by Hurricane Teddy, which is thankfully staying out to sea, although it may bring some rain tomorrow.  We stopped at a Circle K and bought bottled iced coffees, which we drank as we sat in our chairs at the edge of the water.

We probably stayed for half an hour but started to get chilly, so we packed up and headed to Thunder Hole, just to check things out.  It was definitely the best Thunder Hole visit - EVER!  The waves were crashing, the thunder was crashing and people that wanted to be as close as possible were getting soaked.  

The bottom section of the walk is closed for good reason.

We are working on a picture for the Christmas card and figure, we might as well be wearing a mask, since that pretty much sums up 2020.

Not sure this will make the cut.

It was a lovely day, filled with bright blue skies and big blue waters.

Thanks for stopping by...

;o)