Today was our biking day. The park has a bunch of "carriage roads" designated for non-motorized vehicles and pedestrians, so we picked a morning and an afternoon route.
Our morning route took us all around a wetland area and Witch Hole pond. We saw about 6 huge beaver lodges
and about 8 different beaver dams, it was so amazing to see what they build close up. We stopped in one spot to explore some more and could not believe this dam. 
One huge pond was made by this beaver dam and only a few trickles were getting through to the brook that was about 8 feet below. Unbelievable. We also found a beautiful rock fall under Duck Brook bridge. These carriage road bridges are something else, and then the trails go under them to brooks and falls and then the leaves of all colors and the light orange pine needles carpeting the paths . .no wonder we kept running into photography club people with their tripods set up. . They were probably annoyed with us playing by this brook when they were trying to set leaves just so and get some good nature photos. . .
We went back into town for lunch . took a takeout pizza to the public dock at Southwest Harbor and Douwe befriended a cat that seemed to be a dock cat.
After a little pit stop at home for regrouping our snack pack and letting Douwe watch some TV, we headed back out to a trail, this time a carriage road that went around Amphitheatre Mountain. . the sun was getting ready to set but we still had some beautiful light. Found a few more brooks. Douwe could not be more excited than just jumping around on rocks and trying to cross these little brooks, it is fun for us, so I can't imagine what he must be feeling in terms of the adventurousness of rock hopping over a stream.
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