After one night at Warren State park on Southern Islesboro Island, I stopped back in Rockland to pick up my friend Jobert who was joining me for a few days of sailing Tanqueray around Penobscot Bay. After a relaxing day in Minister's Cove we headed south for remote Isle au Haut.
The island has a small fishing village on the north side but most of the Island is part of the Acadia National Park. While the more famous parts of the park on Mount Desert get 5 million visitors a year, the boat to Isle au Haut is limited to 50 hikers a day. Jobert and I hiked through the northern section of the park eating wild blueberries and fighting off mosquitoes.
Obviously named by the French, it's equally tricky to figure out how it should be pronounced in either language. After receiving several conflicting answers I have decided to use this little ditty as the authoritative answer:
Says the summer man when the fog hangs low, "There's a bridal wreath on Isle au Haut". But the fisherman says as he loads his boat, "It's thick-a-fog on Isle au Haut".
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