Up, down, lots of stairs

It was an oatmeal morning again. Yesterday's oatmeal and fresh fruit gave me such a nice start to the day that I decided that repeating it today would be a good idea. Happy stomach...

Food, conversations, and watching eagles soar across another impossibly blue sky, a prelude to walking...

I headed to Point Wolfe and started walking at the covered bridge. The trail was primarily stairs and boardwalks through the forest with views of Point Wolfe beach. I saw stairs off in the distance that led down to the beach. Those stairs looked to be further away than the length of the trail - and they were. The first trail ended at a parking lot, but at the other end of the lot I could see the start of another trail. Ah, that one leads to the beach. Of course I kept walking because I needed to visit one more New Brunswick beach before I switched to the rocky coastline in Maine. The trail wandered through the woods, trees decorated with sunshine filtering through through the leaves.

Once I hit the beach, I managed to stick to the rocks and the hard sand - there was just a little bit of mud, and somehow my feet skipped over the mud this time. That was good - I didn't need to look for a place to wash the mud away.

Back in the car, I started heading up route 114 toward the park exit. The road climbed quickly, and before long I was at the head of the Kinnie Brook trail. The description of this trail drew me in: 'steep-walled valley, disappearing stream, lush floodplain'. It was all true - even the disappearing stream. There may have been running water somewhere there, but I didn't see it. Yup, disappearing... It was a nice trail, even without the stream. Oh, and while most of this trail wandered through woods on a normal trail surface, the end of the trail was stairs and stairs and more stairs. No, I didn't count them, but there were a lot!

My goal was to spend the morning in the park, and I certainly managed that. I finished my last hike right at noon.

Ah, time for that long drive to Acadia number two for this trip.