Acadia National Park sees some of the first light on the East Coast. On a cold October morning, I ventured out in the dark into the park and walked down a trail to this spot, Boulder Beach. It takes a scramble down some large rocks to get to the shore, so it was deserted; nothing but the sound of waves and rocks knocking together. There was a slight pre-dawn glow to the sky, then the sun really lit up the rocks along the entire coastline in an intense, deep orange.
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