Day 1: Beehive. The group getting ready at the Sand Beach parking lot.
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On our way to the Beehive.
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Nice views of Sand Beach from the trail.
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Kim, Jen and Darlene.
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Phil always like to find the harder way up.
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Darlene having fun.
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Stevo.
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Phil with Gorham Mtn in the background.
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Kim and Jen.
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Darlene strolling the summit of Beehive.
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Kim and Phil at the summit of Beehive.
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Jen. We headed down to the back of Beehive.
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Darlene and Kim with Dorr mountain in the background.
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Phil.
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Jen.
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The Bowl on the back of Beehive.
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Heading down.
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Back to Sand Beach. Nice day and great company bring out the kid in all of us.
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Kim trying to dissociate with us?
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Nay... we're all in it together.
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Jen and Darlene jumping the wave.
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Nice view.
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Even better view!
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Phil doing yoga?
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Jen climbed to the top of a boulder next to the Thunder Hole.
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Kim joined her.
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Later the day, Darlene took us to her uncle place in Stonington, where her uncle took us on his lobster boat to sightsee the harbor.
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Uncle Junior's buoys.
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Uncle Junior's lobster boat.
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Boats in the harbor.
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Uncle Junior.
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Darlene and her dad.
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Stevo and Phil.
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Many beautiful little island around the harbor.
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Kim.
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Junior pulled a couple of trap to show us.
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Jen holding a baby lobster.
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Cute, we tossed it back to the sea since it's too small to keep.
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Junior showed us how to measure the lobsater, we learned that the left side of the lobster is always the bigger side.
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Too small, back to the sea.
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Darlene put the rubber band on the claws.
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Stevo, Darlene and Phil.
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Perfect island for a weekend camping trip... next year?
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A sea of buoys.
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Jen contemplating the views.
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Junior took us to a place where seals often seen lounging around. We saw a dozen of them laying on this rock and some in the water.
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The seals are shy, left only the seaguls on the rock.
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Heading back to the harbor.
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A lighthouse of a cool looking house.
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Junior dropped us of.
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A strange looking lobster.
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Back on the dock.
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Beautiful late afternoon sun illuminated the harbor.
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Junior pulling our dinner out from his stash.
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Dinner!
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Sunset on our way back to Mount Dessert Island.
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The bridge over to Stonington Island.
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Cooking lobster at the campsite :).
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Dinner is served!
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Yummy!
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