Nature & Wildlife
Nat Hab’s Maine Coastal Explorer tour takes travelers on an idyllic journey from Bangor to Acadia National Park. Here are five highlights visitors will experience during their stay on Mount Desert Island, the largest of Maine’s 4,600 coastal islands.
Travel Tales
Nat Hab’s Maine Coastal Explorer highlights the maritime gems of this easternmost state, and travelers will have ample opportunity to explore Maine’s rugged coast and quiet coves on private boat excursions. Passing picturesque harbors and scenic lighthouses, our chartered vessels set out to sea.
Travel Tips
On its finest days, summer feels like it could last forever. But, alas, all good things must come to an end. Or, when it comes to the seasons, sublimely shift into something new. As F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
Conservation
Seaweed is integral to the underwater ecosystem as it provides a foundation for life in our oceans—food, energy, habitat, oxygen, and more. According to NOAA, “seaweed is the common name for countless species of marine plants and algae that grow in the ocean as well as in rivers, lakes, and other water bodies.”
Europe
Acadia National Park, encompassing the highest rocky headlands along the U.S. Atlantic coast, has a long and interesting history. The Downeast Maine region has been inhabited by the native Wabanaki people, the collective name for the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes, for over 12,000 years.
News & More
For two years, many of us have dreamed up lists of far-away places, and as travel restrictions and border closures continued, these plans seemed increasingly far-off. Now, as travel makes its return, we couldn’t be more excited for those dream trips to become reality.
Travel Tips
When envisioning a trip to Maine, many people imagine early morning sunrises over the Atlantic, contentedly watching the fog roll in, gorging on the freshest lobster possible and taking introspective walks through verdant fern- and moss-filled forests.
U.S. National Parks
Waves that thunder against granite cliffs and break apart on kelp-slick rocks. Bullfrogs that croak among the grasslike rushes that rim ponds and line lakeshores. Woodpeckers that rat-a-tat-tat on tree bark. Great black-backed gulls filling the breeze-clearing air with their deep, hoarse calls. These are the sounds of Maine’s Acadia National Park.
Videos
Proud, powerful and the national symbol of the United States, bald eagles are birds of prey that are extremely territorial during nesting season but highly social at other times.
Videos
We just passed the unofficial middle of summer, July 4. With that marker comes a usual complaint: there’s nothing to watch on TV. But now that most regular programs are on hiatus, I’ve found something far more fascinating: spying on the real-time lives of wild animals.
Conservation
Each spring, the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation sponsor National Park Week, this year designated as April 19–27. To kick off the celebration, Saturday, April 19, and Sunday, April 20, are fee-free entrance days.
