Quote Originally Posted by Cataboo View Post
Mount Desert island/ Acadia national park is really gorgeous. If you said you wanted to go kayaking - I would have a ton of suggestions of where you should do that. Mount Desert does have some gorgeous hiking & some nice roads for biking.


if you have a bunch of camping gear with you already and want to go kayak camping, I'd say go to:
http://www.oldquarry.com/
You can rent boats or hire an outfitter & that's on the deer island archipelago - so if you stay in the inner islands, it's only 1-2 miles between every island, and you can hike around. The inner islands are fairly protected from the weather.

There's 2 sets of photos of kayaking around maine in my picasaweb - just scroll down & hit see more photos after the first batch:
https://picasaweb.google.com/immunogirl
Sept 2010 has 4 or 5 albums of Maine & so does August of 2009.
You take fabulous photos, Cataboo!

DH and I are planning a trip to Acadia for next September. We're driving from Indiana but that means we'll get to bring our touring bikes for riding around on the park's carriage roads. I've only kayaked a few times, and DH never. How experienced do you need to be to kayak safely there? Are you aware of any guided excursions? I think that would be a need change of pace from our usual hiking/biking.

I'm so excited about this trip. My mom's family is from the Maine/New Hampshire border, but I haven't been up that way since I was very young, but I've long had a romantic attachment to the area.