Waking Up Before the Sun

Sunrise at Cadillac Mountain

My day started off before most of my friends back at home had even fallen asleep. Waking up at 1:30 a.m. was definitely a choice, but it turned out to be so worth it in the end. Mallory, Libby, Kate, Maci and I left for the sunrise on Cadillac Mountain at 2:30 in the morning, but ended up being way too early since we couldn’t do any night sky photography due to the cloud coverage. To pass some of the time, we stopped by the Eagle Lake Carriage Road parking lot where we heard owls and tons of frogs and danced around said parking lot for a solid 2-3 minutes before getting back in the car. We drove back toward the entrance of the mountain around 3:40 a.m. and found ourselves overlooking the same body of water we toured on the Sunset Cruise yesterday. The wait was completely worth it and we got to be some of the first people in the United States to see the sunrise this morning. After we had gotten all of the footage we needed from the sunrise, we headed to Jordan Pond for some more views and fresh air at around 6:00 a.m.. Our next stop was Bar Harbor where we all decided to nap in the car for around thirty to forty-five minutes before getting coffee at A Slice of Eden pastry shop for some fuel to go meet everyone else at the carriage rides.