Earth Day on the Maine Coast

Liam and Marcus participated in their first earth day cleanup on the Schoodic Point area of Acadia National Park (Maine). Their mentors (as shown here) were my able brother Daniel and his girlfriend Meg. Leading us that day was my father, Jim, who is very dedicated to Schoodic and when I was a wee lad, was a Park Ranger for a spell in Acadia. Liam and Marcus pursued the occasional pieces of garbage with the vigor of a raptor after a field mouse. Notably, much of the garbage found on the coastline came from the lobster/fisheries sector.


This is a view from Schoodic Point looking towards Mount Desert Island (and Mount Champlain). The running on the massive pink granite slabs here cannot be beat. As I watched my boys scamper on these rocks, I remember my youth on these same formations. This type of rock is so strong that no visible erosion has taken place in my lifetime.