This is my second time at Acadia... but it is a different experience... previously i came with a group of girls and we stayed in a hostel... but now it's a mixed group and we are going to be staying in pitched tents....
Fri 20th Jul 07
We took the day off work... and since this is going to be one of the longer drive... 4-5 hours... we set off early in the morning... backed all the gear that were borrowed from colleagues and off we went...
we reached the campground... BlackWoods Campground... checked in.... and drove to our camp site... we pitched our tent... 1 big 8 men tent with an air mattress... courtesy of xy's colleagues... after we settled down and kinda settled our lunch... the weather was looking rather gloomy... so we decided to take it easy for the day... just taking the shuttle and go wherever it brought us... it started raining when we were on the bus... and we couldn't make out much outside the window except trees trees and more trees... in the end everyone fell asleep on the bus... and it probably brought us to the other end of the park... which we kinda looped back before we alighted...
Fri 20th Jul 07
We took the day off work... and since this is going to be one of the longer drive... 4-5 hours... we set off early in the morning... backed all the gear that were borrowed from colleagues and off we went...
we reached the campground... BlackWoods Campground... checked in.... and drove to our camp site... we pitched our tent... 1 big 8 men tent with an air mattress... courtesy of xy's colleagues... after we settled down and kinda settled our lunch... the weather was looking rather gloomy... so we decided to take it easy for the day... just taking the shuttle and go wherever it brought us... it started raining when we were on the bus... and we couldn't make out much outside the window except trees trees and more trees... in the end everyone fell asleep on the bus... and it probably brought us to the other end of the park... which we kinda looped back before we alighted...
dinner was BBQ at our campsite... wanted to get rid of all the fresh food before they all go bad... so we started our mini fire... and let the cooking begin...
the temperature at this time of the year + just after the rain + in the midst of tall trees + at a slightly elevated altitude + the night = ultimate coldness!!! sleeping in the tent was really super cold... and the air mattress din work to our advantage as it kinda "decrease" in size and bounciness throughout the night.. and we literally were almost sleeping on the floor by morning... haha..
Sat 21st Jul 07
today was the day for some hiking... since i've been to acadia before... i told them to go to all the "must-go"... which included hiking around Jordan Pond.. and up to Bubble Rock... which shag me out.. haha... the rest of the "must-go" include Cadillac Mt... Sand Beach...Thunder Hole... Frenchman Bay...
We were tired of eating canned food and watever semi-stale noodle tat we brought... so we end up having dinner somewhere in the Bar Harbor area... before going back to our ever so cold campsite... this time round i chose to sleep in the car with my thermal sleeping bag... it's a lot better... tat is if u wind up the window and not let the cold air get in.. which equates to almost running out of air.. haha...
-jiahua
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