Pictures? More pictures!

Sometimes I wonder if I ride so I can take pictures or if my playing with cameras is the excuse I need to explore new places on my bike. I supposed it doesn't really matter which is my driving force since both activities are things that I love to do. I came home to find that the CompactFlash cards that my cameras had been happily filling contained 1672 photos. And yes, I still had plenty of empty media space so I could certainly have continued cycling and taking pictures. I didn't keep all of the pictures, but there are still a lot of photos. A good sampling of pictures will be in this journal, with more in my photo galleries.

You can access the top level gallery for this trip here. I've split the photos into a number of galleries based on the location (where I was riding) or the subject matter (from my fascination with bugs and birds and animals). Here are the individual gallery addresses just in case you want to go directly to a gallery:

• Birds, little creatures, and a big creature too: Some of the live creatures that I encountered during my trip, scattered among the days.
  
• Wildflowers, flowering and gone to seed, plus...: A set of photos of wildflowers scattered across the entire tour.
  
• Assisted by non-human-powered transport: A few photos from my drive from home to Bar Harbor, and some shots taken from (and of) my time aboard The Cat.
  
• Yarmouth visions: houses, harbor, lighthouse: Wandering in Yarmouth and vicinity on arrival in Nova Scotia, and again on my last days there.
  
• Evangeline Trail, from Yarmouth to Annapolis Royal: Photos as I followed the Evangeline Trail, with some off-trail shots as I headed out to Digby Gut and across North Mountain to the Bay of Fundy. A glimpse of the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens is also included here.
  
• Over South Mountain to the Lighthouse Route, Annapolis Royal to Yarmouth: From Annapolis Royal, I headed across South Mountain on Route 8, joining the Lighthouse Route in Liverpool. Then it was time to follow the coast once more as I rode back to Yarmouth.
  
• To the end of Digby Neck and on to Brier Island: I received an assist from a motorized vehicle plus two ferries in my quest to wander by foot and visit the seals on Brier Island.
  
• Acadia National Park: Two times around Park Loop Road on September 19th, once by bike and once assisted by my car - and then a quick re-visit of the coastal areas on the 20th.

Interested in looking via a slideshow? You can click the slideshow button (in each gallery) and let the photos scroll by your eyes. To jump back out of the slideshow, just move your mouse and then click Return to gallery in the upper right. Or you can return by simply clicking the Esc key.

Enjoy!