Another great day ~ hiking, weather, and food! 😀 We hiked the Beehive Trail (which we did last time we were here, in 2013) and ended up making it a larger loop ~ again, not the plan, but we are thrilled we did as it was a super fun hike!
Beehive Trail is very popular, so the alarm was set for 6am and we were at the Beehive trailhead by 7:45am, with just a few parking spots remaining! It was a rocky and steep ascent....
..with great views from the start....
There were narrow parts of the trail.....
..and rungs/ladders.....
Hi Brad!✋
More rungs.....
It took about about 40 minutes to get to the Beehive Summit:
At that point, one can continue to complete the Beehive Loop (our original plan), however once we got there, we decide to make it a larger loop, so we continued along the Gorham Mountain Trail which took us past The Bowl (a lake)...
Along the way we chatted with fellow hikers - all super nice - a couple women from Alabama and a couple from North Carolina. After a bit of chatting, the guy from North Carolina graduated from the same college as Brad! Small world! 🌎
This part of the hike was a bit more forested....
...though not for long, as the path became rockier and more boulders again. Actually since all the rocks and boulders were huge, it wasn't difficult hiking - or bothersome to the soles of our feet.
By 10am, we were at the Gorham Mountain summit - a whopping 525ft elevation! 😅
The views here were amazing!!!
We continued along the Gorham Mountain Trail, eventually connecting with the Cadillacs Cliffs Trail....
Arriving at The Gorham Mountain Trailhead at 10:40am. We walked back to our car (at the Beehive Trailhead) along a path along the road...
....still enjoying some amazing views.....
We took a short detour to Sand Beach....
We took this picture walking back to our car - this is Beehive - where we were (many more people at this late-morning hour):
We intended to take another hike in The Bubbles area, but we could not find any parking as it was about noon by now and the masses were out-and-about, so we ended up driving back to the area where we were yesterday as our Airbnb hosts recommended a restaurant in that area - Archie's Lobster.
The place was right on the water, with both indoor and outdoor eating areas:
Brad ordered the warm lobster roll in butter and Suzanne decided to try something different based on our hosts' recommendation - a crab roll.
The warm lobster roll was definitely the winner - the crab was cold and once you've had Oregon Dungeness Crab, there is no other crab (unless a crab cake).
We headed back to the Airbnb for the rest of the day to plan tomorrow's activities and place to eat.
Lobster Rankings:
#1 ~ Bar Harbor Lobster Pound - a great lobster roll, great side of homemade chips, cooking and shelling are visible and fun to see, super nice staff #2 ~ Archie's Lobster - slightly better lobster roll, however not "better enough" to warrant the 30 minute drive, side of Cape Cod potato chips (bag), nice views over water, nice staff
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