Contributions of the group National ✰ State ✰ Parks ✰ Places

I See That You Are Too Close To My Nest !

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:24:23 +0000

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Osprey over shoreline of Sinepuxent Bay, at Assateague Barrier Island on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Sinepuxent Snag

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:17:42 +0000

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... along the Assateague Island shoreline ... U.S. National Seashore Park, Maryland

Bright Gears (and a history lesson)

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:07:50 +0000

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Gambrill Mill, Monocacy Civil War Battlefield
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American Civil War -- In Summer 1864 U.S. Grant's National Army had Robert E. Lee's Rebel Army trapped near Richmond Virginia, and William Sherman's National Army was "marching [rampaging] through Georgia" heading for South Carolina. So in time, barring a nasty miracle, the industrial northern United States was going to defeat the agricultural secessionist southern Confederacy. But that miracle nearly happened!!

A small Confederate army outmaneuvered a poorly-led National army in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and invaded Maryland and turned toward Washington DC. National General Lew Wallace [later of Ben Hur fame] gathered a scratched-together, outnumbered force of regulars, reserves, and invalids; and fought a bitter delaying action on the banks of the Monocacy River 50 miles (80 kilometers) northwest of Washington DC. Wallace's force was defeated and scattered, but the Confederate army was delayed for nearly a full day. It then marched on through Maryland to assault the previously unmanned defenses of Washington. But the Confederate attack came only an hour after veteran National troops sent by ships from Grant's army disembarked to successfully garrison Washington's defensive forts They got there just in time. (and as a spectator Abraham Lincoln nearly got himself shot). One or two hours changed history-that-could-have-been.

Thus, repulsed in an attempt to invade the Capital of the United States, the Confederate army eventually retreated back into Virginia; on the way, they demanded ransoms from towns in Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, and burned Chambersburg Pennsylvania in retaliation for Nationalist depredations in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia ...

And the American Civil War then bloodily proceeded to the now inevitable Confederate surrender.

Rust and Shadows

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 18:43:57 +0000

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Old shed by the pathway at Gambrill Mill, Monocacy Civil War Battlefield

Rocky Points

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:31:16 +0000

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Hamilton Cove Preserve, Maine Coast Heritage Trust.

On the misty horizon is Canada's Grand Manan Island (rocky steep cliffs at shoreline), New Brunswick Province.

Incoming Tide

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:15:04 +0000

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Hamilton Cove, Maine Coast Heritage Trust.

Gray Day at Hamilton Cove

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 16:19:17 +0000

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A Little Help Up the Hill

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:39:36 +0000

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Yes, an aid to hikers; but also, on this seaside headland exposed to heavy weather, this rustic stairway eliminates a bare dirt path subject to damaging erosion.

Maine Coast Heritage Trust: Boot Head Preserve.

Goldenrod Stairs, on the rocks ...

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:28:00 +0000

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The pathway from the upland of Boot Head Preserve down to the curving beach (rocky shingle) of Boot Cove. Here, privately owned property is directly adjacent to acreage purchased by conservation organizations, with the focus of both maintaining its natural state and allowing public access.

If You Weren't Lost Before ...

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:05:33 +0000

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Cutler Coast (Maine) Reserved Lands -- "The Bold Coast Trail".

Brick, and Glass-Block Window

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:02:43 +0000

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Through-the-Window (2 of 3) --

The foghorn building at West Quoddy Head lighthouse.

Ironbound Shutter

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 07:27:48 +0000

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Fort Edgecomb

Ironbound Door

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 07:27:10 +0000

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Fort Edgecomb

Brooks Cove in the Mist

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 18:20:16 +0000

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Oh, Ipernity "Location" name is not right. This is an steep inlet on the south coast of Boot Head peninsula, protected by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Lubec Maine is more than 15 kilometers away: a village, not this wild coast.

Cliff height here is about 13 meters.

And, a short distance west of here is even a more wild rugged bit of coastline. I missed the trail to it this time (and it is labelled as a "beach" on the local map, which I wasn't interested in anyway; so I wasn't diligent in searching). Will try harder next time, hopefully at high tide after a storm.

Swimming and Diving Not Advised

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 17:14:31 +0000

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South shore of Boot Head with Hurricane Henri offshore; an area protected by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Cliff height here is about 13 meters.

(Realty agents trying to sell the last remaining parcels of oceanside land in Downeast Maine call this "crashing surf"; in this instance, realtors are telling the truth. Preservation and conservation societies are in a race with private buyers to acquire this same oceanfront land.)

Quoddy Cliffs

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:19:00 +0000

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Under gray skies, these cliffs: ponderous, massive, implacable.

Cliff height toward the top right of this shot is over 25 meters.

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Hoping Against All Odds

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 17:06:41 +0000

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Leaning Into the Eternal Waves

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:16:29 +0000

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Maybe a geologist can identify these rocks at the base of a cliff? (Campobello Island, New Brunswick Canada)

Continental Drift -- All geologic structures east of the Norumbega Fault, in New England and into Canada, were left behind eons ago when Pangea ripped apart and Europe "drifted" away. And all are remnants of a primordial continent called Avalonia that was crushed out of existence between Eurasia and North America as Pangea initially formed. Thus, eastern New England and coastal Maine share predominant European geology with Cornwall England, The Ardennes, and also the Atlas Mountains of northwest Africa.

Franklin Roosevelt's Summer Home

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 16:50:00 +0000

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There has been some mention recently about Campobello Island and Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "cottage" located there; so here's a couple of shots of what it looks like.
(New Brunswick Province, Canada) ...
(Thanks Wikipedia, for more information about this place than I think I ever wanted to know.)

Lobster Boats and Rocks (1 of 3)

nobody@ipernity.com (L. L. Wall) — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:49:51 +0000

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West Quoddy, Maine.
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