Back from Acadia.
We’re Back!!! We had an excellent trip to Acadia this weekend. We had planned it out a few weeks ago and were really looking forward to the trip. It was planned with a few new friends from one of my other sites. The weather was a bit of a curve ball, but in the end I think it helped us get some fun shots on Sunday. We drove up Saturday morning arriving on the island just in time for the rain to start. We all went to the The Maples Inn (don’t let the website fool you, this is the best B&B we’ve ever been to!). We then drove all over the part in the rain scouting things for things to shoot Sunday. We had a blast, but I think we were all worried it wouldn’t clear up on Sunday. Saturday night we went to Reel Pizza. Talk about the best idea ever. It’s a pizza joint inside a movie theater. You order your food then sit inside the theater. There is a bingo board that lights up with the number when your food is ready. They also serve beer so it’s a win, win, win. We saw Bee Movie which was actually quite good.
We all woke up at 5:30am on Sunday morning hoping for sunrise shots from the top of Cadillac Mountain. We got to the road and it was closed. We frantically drove around looking for other ways onto the park loop with no luck (the sunrise was officially 6:14am). Luckily since there are also several towns on the island, there are also public roads as well as the park only roads. These were all open, so with some creative driving we were able to get out and see some awesome scenery. We had a great time shooting “the golden hour” until around 8:00 at which time we went back to the B&B for breakfast. Let me tell you The Maples Inn has one of the best breakfasts I’ve ever had. We had French toast with Blueberry syrup. It was out of this world. I can see why he’s had his recipes used in restaurants.
After breakfast we loaded up the 3 cars and headed out. We shot throughout the park until around noon, then we headed home. It was great having sirius in the car as we listened to most of the Packers win, and all of the Patriots game. We got home my 8:00pm. For us it was 6:30 in travel time each way. The MINI was awesome as usual getting ~37mpg on the trip.
Acadia NP.
We’re finally going to Acadia! Nikki and I have always said we should go but have yet to make it. We ski up there (well at least in the same state) all the time, and we drove “right by it” on our Canadian trip, but we’ve never been to Acadia before. Some of the guys over at New School Of Photography suggested we do a trip… I said “sure, no problem” and suggested Acadia. Here is a link to the route we’ll be taking. 763 miles and roughly 14 hours. We’ll be doing a lot of photography up there so the 14 hours will just be the major drive time. We’re planning on driving up Saturday morning and coming back Sunday. Not as long as we’d like to stay, but better than nothing. We’re staying at the Maples Inn in Bar Harbor. I’ll be sure to update with tons of pictures once we get back next week.
testing the email writing.
Ok, I finally put some time into the whole email writing aspect of
wordpress. It does not work “out of the box” for wordpress 2.1 and
up… So I managed to find a forum with some help on the subject, but
even after modifying class-pop3.php their error was still there. Well
it turned out whoever wrote the code for the patch had an extra } in
there. Got rid of that (after about an hour of staring at the page)
and it now works…
Canada Stats
OK, so I was planning a Canadian summer trip a few months ago here:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1217787
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1288271
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1222253
It ended up being 3,615 miles all up. It was an awesome trip. My only regret is that I really wish we could have had 2 weeks to do it as we didn’t have nearly enough time to see half the things we wanted more than getting out of the car for a half hour. I would still redo the trip the exact same way we did it today doing it again, and if you handed me the cash and a week off I’d leave again tomorrow to go again without a second thought. On with the details…
Canadian Road Trip: Day 9
Day 9:
Fundy NB -> North Kingstown RI (HOME!!!)
~600 miles
11 hours
full gallery at the bottom or here.
The last day. We were all excited to get home to be out of the car, but sad for the trip to be over. We woke up and all took showers at the park. There were some crazy moths there.
Here’s our site:
on the way out of Fundy we went for a hike to another beach, but the beach was fogged in. There was also an awesome covered bridge right at the campsite we were at:
we saw these boats the night before. I was too tired and it was dark so I didn’t take pictures, but they were on the mud about 25′ down from where they are in these shots. Fundy has the worlds biggest tides. They tie up to metal bars that run vertically up/down the dock. They tie to rings that are welded to the bars. That way the go up/down with the tides w/o having issues with their dock lines. Great system. The other issue is the tides are so big at low tide they are on the ground. They tie these baskets (they look like huge milk crates) under the boats so they stay upright. Pretty cool system. Not sure how they deal with when to go in/out to go fishing since they’re on the ground at low tide with no way to leave or get back… Must be a PITA fishing completely dependent on the tides.
these were on the ground the night before:
you can see the “baskets” they rest on under the bigger blue boat here:
those are pulled up above high tide for work, but are on the same things.
After Fundy it was a long 600 mile drive home through ME, NH, MA and RI. What made things worse is that there was traffic through souther ME, all of NH and northern MA (no one else can go on vacation when we do dammit!!!0 for about 2 hours making it a long last day. In the end we all had a blast. I would do it again, the same exact way if I had the chance. I think Nikki and Ben would both skip the dirt sections. It was also very loud there with the dirt/gravel hitting the wheel wells to the extent you couldn’t talk in the car. Also Sirius worked for all but 1:30. At one point with a nasty rain storm on the southern sky in Labrador it cut out for over an hour. That was right when we got to paved roads so we actually listened to nothing for that time. At some point driving down NL it also cut out for like a minute, but in the scheme of things it was awesome to have and we loved every minute we had great music.
I think that’s about it. If I missed anything I’ll add it later. Ask any questions you want.
Ben
