Cathedral Rock Ovens, near Bar Harbor Me. 13.

Cathedral Rock Ovens, located between Salisbury Cove and Hulls Cove, used to be a popular attraction for visitors. The geological curiosity is a massive stone face with vertical faults, which wave action has eroded over time to form "ovens" or caves at the bottom. The Cathedral is a large vertical rock at the end of the rock face. As shown in this early 1900's photo, incoming tides covered the beach, and much Cathedral Rock Ovens was under water at high tide. Mrs. Clara Barnes Martin wrote in her 1886 guidebook, Mount Desert on the Coast of Maine, that the ovens are "quite hidden from sight at the top of the cliff and can be reached by land only an hour or two before low tide." Describing their lure, she wrote, "There is a gravel beach beneath them, on which quaint picnic parties have been given, with the moon lighting the grim cliff behind, or the ruddy glow of bonfires flashing up under the dark arches" Today the area is well known to paddlers, as there is no public access from land.