Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park 2023

Almost exactly a year ago my wife and I took our second trip to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. We’d last visited 12 years earlier in October, and so had missed the opportunity to see puffins. I’d meant to make a series travelogue posts about my trip, but I got busy with programming, work, video games, and playing D&D with the kids so I fell uncharacteristically behind on tagging and editing my photos. I finally got around to editing the photos from the trip. First up, a selection of photos taken by my wife.

Now some of the better photos I took during the puffin and light house boat tour. Even with the image stabilization built into my 120-400mm lens, it was very hard to compensate for the rocking of the boat. Additionally, we didn’t get that close the puffins and they are pretty tiny birds. So those aren’t my best photo shots and the cropping has exaggerated any “noise” in the digital image. The same goes for the photos of the seals. I think my American Bald Eagle shots came out pretty good, even though they were often the furthest away.

One of the highlights of the trip for most of us was the hike around Jordan Pond. We had a lot of fun with the relatively mild hike (other than a rock scramble or two) and a great lunch afterwards at the Jordan Pond House.

I also had a fun hike with just the wife in a bit of a drizzle. Mostly because, without trying, we ended up capturing images of a bird that looks related to the Cardinals we have here in Maryland.

Finally, a few photos from a short hike we did on our last day in Bar Harbor.

• American-Bald-Eagle
• Bald-Eagle
• Bar-Harbor
• Maine
• Puffins