Yesterday I was scheduled to go on a whale watching trip but it got canceled because of high seas caused by off shore winds ... so I went to Little Hunters Beach instead. It is a tiny cobblestone beach in a cove surrounded by, of course, the rock bound coast of Maine. I found out from a guide book that this area's rocks are considered part of the "Shatter Zone", an area where underground magma came in contact with the bed rock layer above it causing it to shatter. The shattered pieces of this bedrock remained as large chunks in the magma which eventually cooled forming granite. The call the rocks "plum pudding" rocks. It is a really cool formation!
This is a great example of the "plum pudding"
Another great example of "plum pudding"
2 comments:
Looks like a nice place, but if you don't go out in the high seas how do you hope to go swimming with the whales?
I think that is why they don't go out in high seas ... they ARE worried that we will end up swimming with the whales. The water is not Alaska cold here but it is cold enough that it could probably kill you before they could rescue you.
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