Acadia’s Best-Kept Secret

Mountain Goat and I are spending the summer in Maine, which, being from California, gives us so many new places to explore. One of several places we wanted to visit was Acadia National Park, with its seashore, lakes and mountains.

One of my goals during the stay was capturing the Milky Way somewhere beautiful. With little familiarity with the park, I asked in a Milky Way FaceBook group for places to photograph it. One of the places suggested was the Schoodic Peninsula. After some cursory research and seeing how spectacular it is, it became the primary place I wanted to shoot.

The weather forecast was all over the place, so I knew I’d need to take the opportunity to photograph it any clear night I could.