Cloudless Harbor Sunrise

 

2 June 2021

Sunrise over Frenchman Bay was at 4:51 this morning. I started taking pictures at 4:25 a.m. The sky went from pale blue to pink to orange before the sun came up.

The moon was 3 hours into rising. I took this picture without a tripod and with automatic exposure at 40x zoom. I got lucky.

This view of three trees on the western tip of Sheep Porcupine Island is probably one of my favorite views from the hotel:

The first of four lobster boats passed by:

The boat went south, between Bald Porcupine's breakwater and the Shore Path:

The balcony spiders were stirring. That brown blur is one of them, several millimeters across. I spent a good half hour trying to get decent pictures of them last night. Maybe the light was better now, but I didn't want to go get the good camera and spend another half hour taking blurry shots of unidentifiable juveniles. Another time.

There's a long, floating dock near the shore. So far, it's only been occupied by gulls and cormorants.

The vague rainbow over the rising sun wasn't a camera artifact:

4:51 a.m.:

To stop traffic jams at the summit, Acadia National Park is requiring paid passes to the to of Cadillac Mountain this year. We paid a small fortune for this hotel room so that I can roll out of bed, watch the sun rise over Frenchman Bay, and go back to sleep.