{"id":445,"date":"2011-10-09T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=445"},"modified":"2011-10-09T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T23:11:34","slug":"wednesday-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=445","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday morning we rose early (thought you would want to know that) and drove two hours up to Baxter State Park which is 70 miles or so north of Bangor. \u00c2\u00a0The wikapedia reference to the park:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baxter_State_Park\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baxter_State_Park\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baxter_State_Park<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baxter is a very primitive park, no facilities past the entry points to the trails. \u00c2\u00a0The Park Rangers keep very tight control on vehicles and people entering the park, requiring an outside phone contact for you, logging the vehicles in and out and requiring hikers to sign in and out \u00c2\u00a0at the trail heads. \u00c2\u00a0We took a nice hike in questionable weather. \u00c2\u00a0It was still spitting rain off and on.<\/p>\n<p>Some scenes from the park around Sandy Stream Pond. \u00c2\u00a0Notice the leaves are beginning to turn up north at Baxter Park. \u00c2\u00a0Down around Ellsworth and Acadia they had not begun to turn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"baxter stream.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/baxter-stream.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Baxter stream\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sandy stream 1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sandy-stream-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sandy stream 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sandy stream 2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sandy-stream-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sandy stream 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can really see the colors here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sandy stream 3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sandy-stream-3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sandy stream 3\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stream flowing out of the pond.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"sandy stream 5.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sandy-stream-5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Sandy stream 5\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A rainy drive home, and more lobster for dinner. \u00c2\u00a0I began to notice our skin turning a ruddy color and hands warping, becoming claw-like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday morning we rose early (thought you would want to know that) and drove two hours up to Baxter State Park which is 70 miles or so north of Bangor. \u00c2\u00a0The wikapedia reference to the park:\u00c2\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baxter_State_Park. 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