Wednesday morning we rose early (thought you would want to know that) and drove two hours up to Baxter State Park which is 70 miles or so north of Bangor. Â The wikapedia reference to the park:Â http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter_State_Park.
Baxter is a very primitive park, no facilities past the entry points to the trails.  The Park Rangers keep very tight control on vehicles and people entering the park, requiring an outside phone contact for you, logging the vehicles in and out and requiring hikers to sign in and out  at the trail heads.  We took a nice hike in questionable weather.  It was still spitting rain off and on.
Some scenes from the park around Sandy Stream Pond. Â Notice the leaves are beginning to turn up north at Baxter Park. Â Down around Ellsworth and Acadia they had not begun to turn.
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You can really see the colors here.
Stream flowing out of the pond.
A rainy drive home, and more lobster for dinner. Â I began to notice our skin turning a ruddy color and hands warping, becoming claw-like.
