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Horses and carts in Acadia, Maine– videos
Different horses besides our own, plus scenery on the Carriage Roads!
On Bridge Tour, tour wagon pulled by draft team crosses stone bridge below Jordan Pond. Driver Ed Winterberg is the manager of Wildwood Stables; he jokes with us to “Get a horse” because we are on our bicycles this day!
Friesian horses, pair in harness at Wildwood Stables, starting out for their own drive on Carriage Roads.
Nice looking Shire, a draft horse, pulling a 4-wheel cart.
Panoramic 360 view from top of Sargeant Mountain. Starts overlooking Bar Harbor and a cruise ship to northeast, moves to Cadillac and Pemetic Mountains, open ocean view to south and west, Cranberry Islands, Swan Island, Somes Sound westerly and the mainland towards Ellsworth to north.
Percheron and Haflinger horses pulling carts, on their way to the Carriage Roads. There were numerous drivers while we were there; in years past there usually have been more riders than drivers.
We pass a Wildwood teamster with a pair of Clydesdale-Hackney crosses, very fine looking driving horses. Gilford seems to want to meet them closer up!
One of Mr. John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s creations, a stone bridge with nearby waterfall on “Around Mountain” Carriage Road. There are sixteen bridges in Acadia, each one unique. This was on the horses’ day off, our bicycle-riding day.
