First up, Ian, Leah, and I hiked up the Beehive trail. If you look closely at the exposed rock/cliff faces, you'll see the trail of people leading to the top.
The hike itself isn't terribly difficult - it has less than 1,000 feet of vertical gain, but it goes pretty much straight up!
It has iron bars sunk into the rock to help make the hike a bit easier, which was really very helpful.
And it only had a couple of sketchy areas - and sketchy only because the trail was pretty narrow in 2 or 3 places. Nothing bad without a fear of heights - both kids did great!
And here we all are at the top.
With the view looking south and east towards Sandy Beach and Great Head to the left with little Otter Point sticking out there in the right.
Later, we picked up Catherine and we took the kids for a horse carriage ride on the carriage roads.
Our two horses did a good job hauling us (and several others) around in the hot sun (we hit upper 80's low 90's while we were there - not what we were counting on).
Afterwards, we loaded up and made our way to Southeast Harbor where we ate at Beal's Lobster Pier. I had a delicious lobster roll that was pretty darn tasty.
And finally, we drove to Bass Harbor to watch the sun set at the lighthouse. From a photographic perspective, we were unlucky to be blessed with cloudless skies. So seeing there wouldn't be any color to wait on, I took a couple of photos different from what you'll see on postcards of the place.
When we left, there was a line of cars waiting for a spot in the parking lot. Glad we got there when we did, and even more glad we left when we did.
Cheers,
Marc
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