+hollora Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 Bar Harbor is now being visited as a port for some of the large cruise lines. It brings thousands of visitors to town. Link to comment
+hollora Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 (edited) Duplicate post - sorry! Edited August 24, 2008 by hollora Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 Mount Desert Island is a great place for surfers!!! I think that in 2006, (26/5/2006?) the world champion of surfing was in !Mount Desert Island! Am I correct?? Don't think so! I did see a surfer once off Sand Beach a few years ago! Where ever did you find that tidbit? Well, I was just surfing the web and found an MDI World Surf Tour video on Youtube, no surfing but some a neat video of MDI. Link to comment
Maine Family Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 There is not a Walmart, box store or major grocery store on the whole island. You have to travel for these luxuries. Link to comment
+pghlooking Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 There is not a Walmart, box store or major grocery store on the whole island. You have to travel for these luxuries. ....YET!!! Link to comment
Maine Family Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 There is not a Walmart, box store or major grocery store on the whole island. You have to travel for these luxuries. ....YET!!! They have tried but been defeated every time. Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 There is not a Walmart, box store or major grocery store on the whole island. You have to travel for these luxuries. Also, no McDonalds, BurgerKings, KFCs, etc. Sometimes in Winter, we get a real hankering for a Whopper and now with the price of gas, the 20 mile trip to a BK makes ordering off the dollar menu rather expensive . Link to comment
+succotash Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 In 1996, Richard Sassaman completed a book called "Bar Harbor Police Beat: True Stories from the Police Files of Mount Desert Island, Maine" and Audrey Minutolo completed "A Pocket Guide to Biking on Mount Desert Island." Link to comment
+hollora Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 For the past few years in July, the Maine Basketmakers Alliance has held a Native American Festival on the grounds of the College of the Atlantic. There are Native made baskets and goods for sale, demonstrations of native crafts, a silent auction and of course Native music with drumming and dancing. Link to comment
Maine Family Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Cadillac Mountain was named Green Mountain until 1918. That is it for me. I will be working and won't be home until the contest closes. I have enjoyed your contest and always enjoy coming to MDI. Thanks Acadiahiker. Link to comment
+Wild Coin Cacher Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Mmm..the coast of Maine One of the best things about the Atlantic coast is being able to find juicy tidbits to bring to your dinner table. One of my favorite are the blue mussels which carpet the rocks around Mt Desert Isle. Some interesting facts about these mussels: One pound of mussels, in the shell, yields three and one-half ounces of raw mussel meat or l00 grams that is the equivalent of 95 calories, 14 g. of protein, 2.1 g. of fat, .5 g saturated fat, 55 mg. cholesterol, and sodium 284 mg. - They filter water (up to 20 gallons a day!) - Easy to feed, Mussels can find 20 million edible tidbits to graze on in just a liter of seawater. - They can walk. Mussels have an appendage called a foot, that enables them crawl. Blue mussells spawn in the summer and lose a lot of the stuff you can eat, so pick them in winter and spring. Try sauteeing them in garlic and butter and white wine.... Wild Coin Cacher Link to comment
+Wild Coin Cacher Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Opps, I should have limited the last post to a fact: you can gather a great dinner from mussels on the rocks along the shore the rest of the stuff is just for fun Link to comment
+Koolbrez Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 (edited) Fact: I didn't know a darn thing before reading this thread but now I know tons. Thanks Edit for a typo Edited August 25, 2008 by Koolbrez Link to comment
+Solan109 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 For Family friendly swimming go to Echo Beach "This is an adorable beach with bathrooms, changing rooms, outside shower/washing stations, and lifeguards. It's small, but it's really wonderful" Link to comment
+WRITE SHOP ROBERT Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 acadiahiker lives there! Link to comment
PastorJon Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 There was a major forest fire in 1947, which swept across much of the island. To this day, you can see evidence from this fire, based on the reforestation of the areas that were hit the hardest. Link to comment
+BrierPatch Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 There was a brief period when it seemed Mount Desert would again become a center of French activity. In 1688, Antoine Laumet, an ambitious young man who had immigrated to New France and bestowed upon himself the title Sieur de la Mothe Cadillac, asked for and received 100,000 acres (400 km²) of land along the Maine coast, including all of Mount Desert. Cadillac's hopes of establishing a feudal estate in the New World, however, were short lived. Although he and his bride resided here for a time, they soon abandoned their enterprise. Cadillac later gained lasting recognition as the founder of Detroit. The island's highest point, at 466 meters (1530') the highest point on the eastern seaboard of the United States, bears the name Cadillac Mountain, and is notable for the fact that its summit is the first point in the United States touched by the rays of the rising sun. Link to comment
PastorJon Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 The 55+ miles of "broken stone" carriage trails feature 17 handbuilt granite bridges. Each bridge is unique in its design and construction. Link to comment
+Team Van Stoffelen Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 To add some useless facts... In 1820 Mount Desert Island had a population of 1121 inhabitants. In 1821 Mount Desert Island had a population of 1221 inhabitants. In 1836 Mount Desert Island had a population of 1603 inhabitants. In 1840 Mount Desert Island had a population of 1887 inhabitants. In 2008 Mount Desert Island has a population of 10.000 inhabitants. Link to comment
+BrierPatch Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 John D. Rockefeller Jr. gifted the park with much of its land area. Like many rusticators, Rockefeller, whose family fortune was derived from the petroleum industry, wanted to keep the island free of automobiles; but local governments allowed the entry of automobiles on the island's roads. Rockefeller constructed approximately 80 kilometers (50 miles) of carriage roads around the eastern half of the island. These roads were closed to automobiles and included many scenic vistas and beautiful stone bridges. Hand made according to pastor John see I can read) Approximately 65 kilometers (40 miles) of these roads are within Acadia National Park and open only to hikers, bicyclists, horseback riders, horse-drawn carriages and cross country skiers. Link to comment
PastorJon Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 There has been a sustained effort to reintroduce Peregrine Falcons to the island--and some hiking trails might be closed during breeding and nesting seasons. There are viewing stations where you can try to spot the Falcons. Link to comment
+BrierPatch Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 U.S. Naval Radio Station Otter Cliffs was a United States Navy radio receiver facility located on Mount Desert Island in Bar Harbor, Maine. The station was commissioned on August 28, 1917, under the command of Lt. Alessandro Fabbri, who had personally cleared the land, built and equipped the station, and offered it to the government in exchange for a commission in the Naval Reserve and assignment as Officer-in-Charge. Otter Cliffs was the Navy's best transatlantic radio receiver site because of its absence of nearby man-made radio noise, its unobstructed ocean path from Europe, and the outstanding receivers, antennas and noise mitigation techniques developed by the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company under the leadership of Greenleaf Whittier Pickard. By the end of the war, over 100 Navy enlisted men and 25 Marines were assigned to the station. By 1933, however, its buildings had become dilapidated and Navy funds were not forthcoming for repairs. When John D. Rockefeller, Jr. suggested that it be removed, the Navy agreed to include the station in his donation to Acadia National Park, provided that he would build an equally good receiving station nearby. He did so at the Schoodic Peninsula's tip, about five miles away across Frenchman Bay, and Feb. 28, 1935 Otter Cliffs was decommissioned and the new Winter Harbor station was commissioned. (It later became Naval Security Group Activity, Winter Harbor, and on July 1, 2002, was decommissioned and transferred to the National Park Service.) Link to comment
PastorJon Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 The Carriage Trails are occasionally lined with large pointed rocks (to form something like a guardrail). These rocks are often called "Rockefeller's Teeth." Link to comment
+irisisleuk Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 In the village of Town Hill you can find the Estate Brewery of the Atlantic Brewing Company, where you can take a free tour of the brewhouse and taste some award winning ales. My first post on a Groundspeak forum and first attempt on a geocoin contest, will it mean beginners luck? greetings from the Netherlands! Link to comment
+hollora Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 In the village of Town Hill you can find the Estate Brewery of the Atlantic Brewing Company, where you can take a free tour of the brewhouse and taste some award winning ales. My first post on a Groundspeak forum and first attempt on a geocoin contest, will it mean beginners luck? greetings from the Netherlands! Welcome - and Good Luck! Another intesting piece of informaion about Mount Desert - many summer employers can not find enough labor force among locals so they often employ young students from other countries. The work force on the island is a melting pot of people from all over the World. There was a recent fire in Northeast Harbor where labors lost everything in their apartments, including thier passports. Red Cross, Social Security and other officials worked feverishly to assist them. Link to comment
+ThirstyMick Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I just got home from traveling all the way across the continent and seeing so many spectacular places, but it remains a fact, that I believe Mount Desert Island is just about the most phenomenally beautiful place on this planet. Bar Harbor Brewing makes about the best beer I've ever had too. It's a family business, they used to give tours in a cabin next to their house at the border with Otter Creek, but now they've got a place right downtown in Bar Harbor, it looks like they're expanding! That Cadillac Mtn Stout, mmmmm... Link to comment
+BrierPatch Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Abenaki Native Americans called the island Pemetic, meaning "sloping land." Here they fished, hunted and gathered berries. In 1604, French explorer Samuel de Champlain is believed to have run aground at Otter Point, where he met members of the tribe. He would name the island Isles des Monts Deserts, meaning "island of barren mountains" -- now called Mount Desert Island, the largest in Maine. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Mount Desert Island is a great place for surfers!!! I think that in 2006, (26/5/2006?) the world champion of surfing was in !Mount Desert Island! Am I correct?? Don't think so! I did see a surfer once off Sand Beach a few years ago! Where ever did you find that tidbit? Well, I was just surfing the web and found an MDI World Surf Tour video on Youtube, no surfing but some a neat video of MDI. Hmm...There was a site saying that, World surf tour and thedate, and that it was in your island, but I can not find it now!!! Oh! I was probably mistaken! Sorry! Well...I found that there was a surfer in your island once !!! Link to comment
xboxcrazy33 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Today's trail system in Acadia National Park owes a lot to the hard work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Link to comment
+CacheMiner72 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Fog is common during June, July and August. Thanks for the cointest! Link to comment
+BrierPatch Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 First settled in 1763 by Israel Higgins and John Thomas, the community was incorporated in 1796 as Eden, after Sir Richard Eden, an English statesman. Early industries included fishing, lumbering and shipbuilding. With the best soil on Mount Desert Island, it also developed agriculture. In the 1840s, its rugged maritime scenery attracted the Hudson River School and Luminism artists Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, William Hart and Fitz Hugh Lane. Inspired by their paintings, journalists, sportsmen and "rusticators" followed. Agamont House, the first hotel in Eden, was established in 1855 by Tobias Roberts. Birch Point, the first summer estate, was built in 1868 by Alpheus Hardy. By 1880, there were 30 hotels, with tourists arriving by train and ferry to the Gilded Age resort that would rival Newport, Rhode Island. The rich and famous tried to outdo each other with entertaining and estates, often hiring Beatrix Farrand to design landscaping. A glimpse of their lifestyles was available from the Shore Path, a walkway skirting waterfront lawns. Yachting, garden parties at the Pot & Kettle Club, and carriage rides up Cadillac Mountain were popular diversions. Others enjoyed horse-racing at Robin Hood Park-Morrell Park. President William Howard Taft played golf in 1910 at the Kebo Valley Golf Club. On March 3, 1918, Eden was changed to Bar Harbor, after Bar Island which protects the harbor. The name would become synonymous with elite wealth. It was the birthplace of vice-president Nelson Rockefeller. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 I do not know if your island is bigger than Rhodes, in Greece...As I saw, there are 10000 people living on it! Well, in Rhodes there are 120000! BUT! Your island has more caches than Rhodes!!! Hmm..and rpobably more geocachers!!! Link to comment
+team moxiepup Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Areas of Cadillac Mt. are sectioned off with wooden barriers to prevent foot traffic on the delicate lichen species, as seen in the background of this picture. Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Look what did I find!!!! Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 You island is a paradise my friend!!! according to what I saw in photos.... you are lucky!!!! Link to comment
+team moxiepup Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Natural arches caused by the ocean waves pounding against the rocky cliffs, can be found on the northeast section of the island on Eastern Bay. (Also the home of "The Ovens" cache.) Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Just see how beautiful is!!! Amazing!!! Hey I heard that they were selling some islands in the area....is that true??? Hmmm...I can not affort buying geocoins....why I am asking??? So...???Am I correct??? Link to comment
+GATOULIS Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 My last post for today! If you are a painter, this island will inspire you a lot!!! Nice painting!! Link to comment
+team moxiepup Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 (edited) Many many years ago, lobsters were so abundant, that they were considered a cheap food and fed to Maine prisoners, who grew so tired of them that they refused to eat them more than three times a week! (Maybe they weren't given butter!) Edited August 25, 2008 by team moxiepup Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 Ding-Ding-Ding. Cointest is over. Going to the random number generator now. Back in 5. Link to comment
acadiahiker Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 Mount Desert Island Hospital was National Rural Health Association's 2007 Outstanding Rural Health Organization. Congratulations XBOXCRAZY33! Send me your address through my profile and I'll mail your coin out tomorrow. Thanks to all who participated and I really enjoyed the pictures! After trying many times, I still haven't mastered the art of posting photos to this forum. Link to comment
xboxcrazy33 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Mount Desert Island Hospital was National Rural Health Association's 2007 Outstanding Rural Health Organization. Congratulations XBOXCRAZY33! Send me your address through my profile and I'll mail your coin out tomorrow. Thanks to all who participated and I really enjoyed the pictures! After trying many times, I still haven't mastered the art of posting photos to this forum. Woohoo! I can't believe I won! Thanks so much for the awesome cointest acadiahiker! I didn't know about Mount Desert Island before this, but now I really want to take a trip there! Thanks again! Link to comment
Maine Family Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Congratulations and hope you make it up some time. It really is a fabulous place. Link to comment
PastorJon Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Congrats! And... if you ever can... it's a vacation like no other! Link to comment
+hollora Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Mount Desert Island Hospital was National Rural Health Association's 2007 Outstanding Rural Health Organization. Congratulations XBOXCRAZY33! Send me your address through my profile and I'll mail your coin out tomorrow. Thanks to all who participated and I really enjoyed the pictures! After trying many times, I still haven't mastered the art of posting photos to this forum. Woohoo! I can't believe I won! Thanks so much for the awesome cointest acadiahiker! I didn't know about Mount Desert Island before this, but now I really want to take a trip there! Thanks again! Come when you can and don't hesitate to contact Maine cachers to help you plan your trip. Congrats on your win! Link to comment
+BrierPatch Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Congratulations! And arcadihiker thank you! Acadia park is on my short list of vacation spots will be there in a year or two. Link to comment
+DaFunkyFrogs Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 congrats & thanks for the cointest...... .. Link to comment
+Eartha Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 Cointest ended, thread closed. Thank you for playing. Link to comment
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