The granite along the Acadia shoreline as well as on the mountains contains a lot of feldspar and that causes the rocks to have a pink glow when the warm sun hits it. Here’s a landscape example.
This was the day prior to my post earlier this morning. Once the sun cleared the cloud bank on the horizon there was some nice illumination for a while before another flotilla of cumuli (cumuluses?) floated in. I wandered around looking for interesting rocks and found this arrangement.
“There’s always one!”
It’s amazing to me how these rocks get tossed around, wear in the wind and storms, and take their various shapes. Originally they must have been part of solid granite bodies before fracturing then softening as the were battered by the weather.
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All rocks rock!😁
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Some more than others. 🙂
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It’s the aeons-rounded forms of these rocks that make the view effective. The texture’s a plus, too.
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Farther along the Park Loop Road is Little Hunters Beach (there is no consensus on whether there should be an apostrophe or not) which also has rocks worn be time but those have a polished smooth texture and lots of different colors. I posted some in 2015. Different rocks and different forces at work.
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It was worth looking back at those rounded stones.
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If you ever return to Acadia I’ll give you directions to them. There are two different beaches, Hunters and Little Hunters, that have the polished cobbles.
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Might almost be a baker’s rack of loaves, coarse stoneground flour of course.
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I like that visual, Robert. Not very tooth friendly though.
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Yeah, I like a nice crusty loaf of bread but this might be a bit much.
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Beautiful rocks, very sharp photograph and the texture and color are striking. The reddish rocks are interesting. I had not seen something like that before.
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Thanks, Alessandra! Glad I could show you something new. It’s a combination of elements and warm light-something I enjoy capturing in various forms. I posted a link above in my comment to Steve S of some different rocks along the Acadia shoreline. I didn’t get to visit them this year but do try during most trips. I love all the colors and variety of shapes there too.
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Ah yes they also have the pink granite in Sweden as per comment on previous post, and those lovely soft organic shapes. There were also many interesting plants growing between the rocks but not here it seems.
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My response could also be as the last post. There actually are plants growing between some of the rocks in other spots. Here’s one from a few years ago.
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Wow that’s a beautiful photo with the goldenrod, fabulous colours. I always find it amazing how tough such plants are, wedged between rocks and drenched in salt spray! There’s a lesson in there somewhere 😉
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Thanks. They are a force of nature to be sure. What seems a delicate plant is just as capable of breaking rock as a sledge hammer…well to a degree.
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Nice Steve! Can I say this image really Rocks!
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Of course and I am glad that it does. Thanks, Reed!
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I just had the most interesting experience. I had looked at this image before, but don’t remember the play of sunlight on the rocks; this time, the sunlight seems quite pronounced, and very nice. I suspect when I first saw the photo I focused on the perpendicular rock, which is less affected by the sunlight.
Our state capitol is built of pink granite, and one of the famous spots in the state (which I have yet to visit) is Enchanted Rock: a really big hunk of granite.
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That is a big chunk. I suggest you hie yourself over there.
I am glad that you came back to it and saw the light as well as the shapes. I had been looking at the parallel fractures in another spot when I saw the one here jutting up and hied myself right over to it. (No, I did not just learn a new word…just being cute.)
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I like the way the light softly grazes over the texture of the rocks – and the one rock doing its own thing!
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The low angle of light gives this warmth and the sidelighting texture. I was very happy to have both. Thanks, Ann!
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