Stormy Acadia National Park
Four days of my spring break this year was spent on Mount Desert Island. My grandparents live in Hulls Cove, just down the road from Bar Harbor, which is the gateway town for Acadia National Park. I spent two days in the park on Ocean Drive photographing the huge surf and incredibly violent ocean. I’ve never seen the surf so big here. Thunder Hole, which normally has an observation walkway that goes a fair way down to the ocean. Not so this March.
Sand Beach was also quite dramatic. Normally there is surf here, but not this much surf. The waves were legitimately curling, which I don’t get to see that much.
Ocean Drive was spectacular, but I managed to shoot an entire roll’s worth of pictures on an empty camera. Bummer.
The next day, however, the surf was even higher. I managed to shoot a roll of pictures with actual film in the camera this time! I’m still working on developing and printing those pictures, however, and will post them when I have them finished.
Thunder Hole was about ten times more dramatic the next day. I shot pictures from a ton of perspectives, and my brother shot a bunch of pictures while I was shooting film. He captured this shot of me getting sprayed by salt spray while trying to focus.
Thunder Hole usually fills with water at high tide, and as the water crashes in it makes an incredibly loud booming sound. Hence the name. This day, however, it was a little too full.
I tried for a bunch of shots focusing on Otter Cliffs, which unfortunately is accessed by a closed section of Ocean Drive. I would have loved to have been able to get some closer perspectives.
