The Ovens Natural Park
On Thursday, we drove south for about 4 hours to get to our
next campground, The Ovens Natural Park.
It was rainy and dreary again and the roads were severely bumpy (as is
the case with the majority of roads around here), but we finally made it just
around noon. Michaela wasn’t feeling
good that morning so that made the drive even more challenging. By late afternoon, she was herself again and
we were thankful.
It is off season for this campground so there is hardly
anyone here. We don’t mind though. It’s kind of nice having the place all to
ourselves. It’s like being on a private
beach with an awesome view. The front
windows of the RV look straight out over the water.
The Ovens campground has several natural sea caves that you
can hike to. Some of these caves were
enlarged when the gold rush hit this area in
the 1860’s. After lunch, we hiked
the trails and went into the caves. The
boys thought it was pretty neat but Michael sure didn’t want to stay in them
long. We could see where rocks had fallen
in some areas and he didn’t want us to be the next casualty!
While walking the trails, we saw a lobster boat just off
shore checking it’s traps. We were able
to get a few pictures of them hauling up the traps. The waters here are full of lobster and
whales. We were told that the whale
watching tours come right past where we are staying. We haven’t seen any yet but hope to before we
leave on Saturday.
We made a simple dinner at the RV and then went for a walk
on the beach . It’s not sandy here but
rather very rocky. The ground is a
mixture of granite and strange stacked rock that looks kind of like slate. It’s like thin layers of rock stacked
together vertically. It will sometimes
break off when you step on it. You have
to be careful where you step or you will fall or get cut. We found lots more of the same small shells
we saw in Bar Harbor but nothing big this time.
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