After eight spectacular hikes in Acadia National Park in Maine, today's jaunt was a quiet refreshing departure: no high mountains, no sweeping vistas, no angry ocean surfs. This peaceful
little area is basically a group of corn fields with a smattering of lovely ponds. But it's beautiful all the same.
Using
this map we parked off Califon Road (the entrance to the park is unsigned and on an unnamed road), and headed along the white trail in a counter clock-wise direction. It
should be noted that along this trail there are only about two or three blazes, the first appears far to the north within a tiny wooded area separating two fields. But it's
impossible to get lost here. At the southwest corner of White we visited the two western ponds before heading south to circle the southern corn field, where bays of hay had
been left out in the field. Completing the lower loop we headed back to the car before first visiting two of the other ponds southeast of the parking area.
Total distance hiked today was 3.5 miles in just over 2 hours.
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Sign at the parking area |
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Canada geese |
Unpicked rotting corn! |
Lovely cornfield |
Goldfinch? |
Flattened field |
Very few blazes |
Overgrown path |
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Boundary wall |
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Barbed wire |
Beautiful dragonfly |
[Photo by Laura] |
Closer view of dragonfly |
Cutting between fields |
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Approaching stables |
Horse stables |
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Horses |
Shy chipmunk |
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Some fall foliage |
Much unpicked corn |
Bird with fruit |
Hunting chair |
Abandoned railing |
Tractor tracks |
Pond |
Cat tail |
Fall color! |
Bat house |
View up into it |
[Photo by Laura] |
Abandoned house |
View inside |
Laura ... |
... and pond |
Beautiful ... |
... wildflowers |
Another pond |
Beautiful red grass |
Fruit |
Tractors in another corn field |
Bales in field |
[Photo by Laura] |
Close-up of bale |
Grasshopper |
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Kestrel? |
Jet airliner |
More bales |
Tiny insect in flower |
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Thrasher |
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Small creek |
Gorgeous moth |
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Third pond |
Hatching insects |
Beaver activity |
Dragonflies preparing to mate |
Brook |
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Third pond from other side |
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