Human being in photo gives scale to "big" sand. This is a boulder beach with large stone rollers rounded by the incessant pounding of North Atlantic swells. Some of these boulders are between 1/2 and 1 meter in diameter. Photo #3 of sequence.

Image ID: line2699, NOAA's America's Coastlines Collection
Location: Maine, Mt. Desert Island, Acadia National Park
Photo Date: 2003 April 19
Photographer: Captain Albert E. Theberge, NOAA Corps (ret.)


• High Resolution Photo Available