
The surf crashes on jagged rocks, just east of the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse.

The surf crashes on jagged rocks, just east of the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse.

Morning light at Monument Cove on Acadia’s Ocean Path.

Sunrise again, this time looking east toward Schoodic Peninsula.

Sunrise on Otter Cliffs as viewed from the boulder beach below.

I made 17 trips to Acadia National Park so far this season to have the opportunity to explore this wonderful place.

Seals on a ledge at the Indian Point Blagden Preserve, a Nature Conservancy preserve on the northwest side of Mount Desert Island. The preserve is on the part of the island that escaped the fire of 1947, with a forest of mostly mature red spruce, white cedar, and balsam fir.

A cloudy morning along the Acadia coast.

Rocks in the intertidal zone on Acadia National Park’s Hunters Beach. I remembered to leave before the tide came in.



Rocks along the Acadia coast are shaped by the forces of sea and land.

Water flowing into the ocean from a tidal pool at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park.