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Day 4 - Blue Hill Peninsula & Little Deer Isle

Today was our first cloudy morning, but by noon the sun was back out. We took a ride to the Blue Hill Peninsula and Little Deer Isle in Downeast Acadia. Our first stop was at Castine, a quaint and historic seaside village on Penobscot Bay with beautiful old homes and historic inns on elm tree-lined streets. It Is one of the oldest communities in North America. The town is on the National Historic Register and home to the Maine Maritime Academy and Dyce Head Lighthouse.

We then took the “roller coaster” road south and stopped at Caterpillar Hill Scenic turnout for stunning views of Penobscot Bay, the Camden Hills, and surrounding islands as we came down Caterpillar Hill Road towards Little Deer Isle which is accessible by bridge from the end of the Blue Hill Peninsula. The bridge to Little Deer Isle is a miniature Golden Gate style bridge. We stopped for pictures at Bridge End Park.

We had planned to drive to the southern tip of Deer Isle to the little fishing village of Stonington but were tired of the twists and turns of the bumpy narrow roads and decided to head back. We stopped at the only restaurant we saw, The Maine Lobster Lady, and it turned out to be a hidden gem! Yummy shrimp, pasta salad and blueberry coleslaw. Of course we had to buy some of her home-baked desserts to bring back to our Airbnb….peach cobbler, lemon-blueberry cake, and ginger blueberry cake.

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