![]() This was my view from the top of Precipice Trail – unforgettable.Īnother super awesome natural attraction around Acadia National Park is called the Wonderland Trail. Those were a lot of the highlights from my trip to Maine last summer in Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor, but this week I am going to tell/show you more! So, in the last post, you guys saw pictures of me, my family, my dog, our rental house, Precipice Trail, and Bar Island. Now that it is starting to warm up, I am getting extremely excited for summer and reminiscing in all of the fun summer activities there are to do, spending a lot of time outdoors being one of them. I have been in a constant good mood since it started to warm up, especially this past week, and in honor of that I am going to continue with my Acadia National Park nostalgia for part two! Also, please consider sharing this article via the social media links below.I think spring has definitely arrived, even though we are supposed to get know soon? Maybe. If you like this article and would enjoy hearing about new Photographing National Parks content via email, then click here to subscribe to the weekly newsletter. Staying at the Aialik Cabin (permit required) will grant you easy access to a mile of cobblestone beach.Įditor’s note: If I didn’t include your favorite national park for photographing tide pools in this Top 5 list, please be assured it that was No. (Though you might share space with a black bear or two.) The tide pools are home to countless species of intertidal invertebrates, such as sea stars and lugworms, plus crabs, barnacles and seaweed and such. ![]() The coast of Kenai Fjords is not easy to reach, but once you’re there you can explore miles and miles of shore by foot or watercraft, often without seeing another person. ![]() Little Moose Island, Ship Harbor and Wonderland are perhaps the best places for Acadia tide pools, but the most accessible is right in Bar Harbor, on the quarter-mile sandbar leading to Bar Island. ![]() Look for starfish (surprise!), mussels, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, snails, hermit crabs, seaweed and rockweed. In Downeast Maine, the tide pools look a little different than on the west coast, but are just as fruitful for photography. Some of the best relatively accessible tide pools are at the south shore of Frenchy’s Cove (on Anacapa Island), Smugglers Cove (Santa Cruz Island) and the eastern end of Cuyler Harbor (San Miguel Island). In addition to the standard fare of west coast intertidal wildlife, the still waters of the pools are also great for photographing reflections of the surrounding rocky shores topped by oft blue skies. Each will require a boat ride and possibly a hike to reach. If the best of California’s mainland tide pools are in Redwood, the best of its sea-locked tide pools are in Channel Islands. Particular noteworthy are Hidden Beach and Enderts Beach. And among the rocky sections of that shore are what many California naturalists consider to be the best mainland tide pools in the state, home of everything from crabs and limpets to sea stars and anemones. Redwood is most renowned for its large trees, so much so that few people realize it also has 40 miles of pristine coastline accessible via 70 miles of trails. The tidepools are great at just about any of the park’s beaches, but especially at Shi Shi Beach, Kalaloch Beach 4, Mora’s Hole in the Wall, Second Beach and (my favorite) Ruby Beach. Photograph giant green anemones, spiny sea urchins, hard shelled limpets, crustaceans, rock crabs, eels, and purple, red and yellow starfish. The Olympic coastline is beautiful in any direction you look, including down. Especially under a gray sky, tide pools make for a fertile photography subject and a wonderful reason to get the macro lens out of the bag. The receding water may also reveal a whole new world underfoot, in the form of tide pools: puddles of all sizes that support temporary microecosystems until the tide covers them once more. One of the best aspects of photographing ocean coastline is how dynamic the landscapes and seascapes are-the ebbing and flowing tide creates a different aesthetic by the hour. Starfish, Ruby Beach, Olympic National Park, © 2012 Chris Nicholson Top 5 National Parks for Photographing… Tide Pools
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