Sunrise On Moosehead Lake

If you remember around November I posted about watching the sunrise on Cadillac Mountain, now I'm posting about watching the sunrise from Moosehead Lake in Maine. If you couldn't tell I have a thing for sunrises.

Zach and I woke up around 3 in the morning, and as he said waking up ugh why can't you like sunsets better, I do love a good sunset but something about the sunrise, waking up early, the birds chirping and the feeling of being awake before anyone else, it just feels relaxing and calming. We live about an hour  from Moosehead Lake and another half an hour around the lake to where we keep our boat in Rockwood Maine. We ended up at a place called the Kineo Dock, which has a view of Mount Kineo, and access to the public. No one was around and we probably only passed two cars and one logging truck on our way there. Moosehead Lake is the largest lake in Maine, and the largest mountain lake in the eastern part of the United States, and let me tell you it's absolutely breath taking, if you are in Maine you have to go to Greenville and Moosehead Lake.

PS this early in the morning you are bound to see a moose, we saw one on the side of the road on our way back about a mile away from the Kineo dock, it ran back into the woods before we could get a picture. Just be cautious of them in the roadway. A great place to see them is called Shirley Flats.

Xoxo Liz

Cadillac Mountain Sunrise

This November for my birthday instead of any presents I decided I wanted to take a trip about two to three hours south of where I live in Maine. One of my bucket list items was to watch the sunrise on Cadillac Mountain, so what better way to kick off turning 19 then to go catch the sunrise on top of a mountain.

Cadillac Mountain is the first place to see the sunrise from October to May, it sit in Mount Desert Island as a part of Acadia National Park, a must go if you are ever in Maine, trust me. 

Zach and I woke up around 4 am probably before then since I was excited, drove for about two hours we weren't worried about traffic because in Maine there is honestly never any, even in our bigger cities Bangor and Portland the traffic is never bad compared to growing up in the DC area, once we got to the mountain all we had to do was drive up to the top where they have a parking area and you are right there when  you get out of your car.

Now we went at the end of November and it was freezing cold and windy, I mean I had wool socks, a long sleeve shirt, sweatshirt, LL Bean jacket and a blanket and still was freezing. It wasn't that crowded but there where more people then I expected to see for this time of the year, in the summer it's packed so if you plan on going be prepared for that. 

There is something so magical about being with the person you love getting to see the sun before anyone else in the United States it was as if the world had stopped for a minute, one of those times you could relive every day. 

We where too cold to stay after the sun came up, plus we went to bed at midnight from surprising my dad at the airport. If you are ever in Maine add this to one of the things you have to do. Even if it's the summer and it's technically not the first place to see the sunrise it still will be breath taking.