Coastal Maine’s rugged beauty takes on a new tone under a bright, late-twilight moon. A short time exposure brightens the scene nearly to daytime levels, as the incoming tide’s continually crashing surf feathers itself ghostly across the big rocks. Little by little, this pounding undermines the cliffs over many millennia, tumbling more boulders to be smoothed by the wave action. Glaciers did their work here too, scouring the tops of the rock, carrying boulders from Canada to drop here, and digging deeper a relatively soft valley that filled with ocean water to become this bay. A remarkable confluence of aspects from geology, hydrology, astronomy, glaciology, and oceanography conspired to create this scene!
5 SSE Bar Harbor ME (6 Oct 22) Looking NNE
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