SCHOODIC is a very special place. Once it belonged to one man, John Moore, who loved it so well that he opened it to the public in 1897. Now most of it is part of Acadia National Park. In 1935, John D. Rockefeller, feeling that the Navy installation on Otter Cliffs on Mount Desert was unsightly, paid out of his own pocket to have it moved to nearby Big Moose Island, at the end of Schoodic Peninsula. In the last couple of years, however, the facility was deemed unnecessary for our national defense. It was vacated, and the property was transferred by the government to Acadia National Park. John D. would have liked that.
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You can stand here at the end of the world and sense the great forces that have formed the coast of Maine—upwellings of granite eons ago, then the intrusion of dramatic black basaltic dikes into the pink granite, then the glaciers carving and grinding down the rocks, and the ceaseless working of the wind and sea. Waves roll unchecked across the Atlantic and crash in dazzling spray upon the pink granite ledges.
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Schoodic is difficult for the cruising boat to visit. The harbors on either side of the point—Pond Island, on the west shore and Wonsqueak and Bunkers Harbor on the east (see Down East) —are tricky at best. Of the three, Pond Island is the best choice for temporary anchorage and access to Schoodic Head.
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A safer way to explore Schoodic is to leave your boat in Winter Harbor and hitch a ride or find a garage there willing to rent you a car.
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