Photograph by Johannes de Wet, submitted to My Shot Established:
February 26, 1919 Size: 49,600 acres Sea and mountain meet at
Acadia, where, as one presumably ambidextrous visitor wrote,
"you can fish with one hand and sample blueberries from a wind-
stunted bush with the other." Most of the park is on Mount
Desert Island, a patchwork of parkland, private property, and
seaside villages that seasonally fill with what residents call
"the summer people." Other bits are scattered on smaller islands
and a peninsula. Mount Desert Island once was continental
mainland, a mountainous granite ridge on the edge of the ocean.
Some 20,000 years ago, towering glacial ice sheets—sometimes a
mile thick—flowed over the mountains, rounding their tops,
cutting passes, gouging out lake beds, and widening valleys. As
the glaciers melted, the sea rose, flooding valleys and drowning
the coast. The preglacier ridge was transformed into today's
lake-studded, mountainous island, which thrusts from the
Atlantic like a lobster's claw. S