The short hike before Breakfast that never ended in Schoodic National Park

Sandy had a great idea this morning to do a short 1.1 mile hike before breakfast.  We dressed in long pants, long sleeve jackets, and baseball caps to keep the mosquitoes and ticks at bay.  I also took my day pack with sunscreen, tick spray, mosquito spray, snacks, and two bottles of water.  

At 9:00 A.M. one of the local Rangers walked us to the 1.1 mile White Harbor trail head, and explained that it will take us along the waters edge, then once off the trail we can take an easy walk via the bike trail back to the campground.

We didn’t think anything of a 1.1 mile hike as we typically complete a 2 mile hike in our neighborhood at home in 40 minutes with an easy stride.

Well you can already guess where this is going.  We started down to the water.  The trail took a lot of twist,turns, up, and down hills.  It was pretty along the water (see pictures attached).  One mile in we realized that this hike was harder than expected.  When we finally popped out of the woods, and found the bike trail we learned a couple of new lessons.

1. We should have had the Ranger highlight the map of the trails we were suppose to take because unexpectedly the trails were not marked well and the map we had was very sketchy.
2. Yes, we found the bike trail but we did not know whether we should go right or left on the trail.  Of course we went the wrong way!!
3. Although Sandy did drink the water I packed in, she in no way was going to eat the chocolate chip cliff bar no matter how hungry she was.  She hates cliff bars :)
4. The compass on the cell phone actually does work, even in airplane mode.

Well we made it back to the campground and finally sat down for a big breakfast at 1:30 PM.  Then had a big laugh at how tired we were after this 1.1 mile walk before breakfast.