Ok so we just got back from 6 days in a beautiful cabin on a lake near Belfast, ME.  To sum up my vacation, I spent 90% of my time in my canoe with my daughter, fishing for bass.

We caught, smallmouth, largemouth, pickerel, yellow perch, and a few other assorted panfish I was not familiar with.  Only kept 4 fish (3 small and one largemouth) and cooked them up on the grill for dinner.

I can’t explain how beautiful it is up there, the weather in August is in the high 70s during the day and the high 50s at night. No humidity, no rain, just plain gorgeous weather (and scenery).

We visited Moosehead state park one day and spent an entire day at Acadia National park another.  Acadia has got to be one of the most beautiful places on earth, the rocky cliffs meeting the North Atlantic ocean with tidal pools absolutely teaming with marine life.  Katy and I found huge starfish, clams, sea cucumbers and crabs everywhere we looked.

The town of Bar Harbor is a nice little vacation spot, not too crowded and NOT commercialized like the beach areas around here (Ocean City, Outer Banks).  Everyone in Maine is polite and courteous.  The one issue I found with them is that they all love the Redsox (boo!).

Here are a few pics.

The lake at sunset:

In the morning:

Acadia National Park: