The sun is trying to break through the morning’s thick fog again as this is written. This has been the foggiest and rainiest July in recent history here on the Down East coast. Yesterday, the sun eventually established a foothold and fought off the fog until the afternoon, when the fog started rolling large again.
This created the above interesting effect in Blue Hill’s Connery Cove that we were lucky enough to witness yesterday. Before the fog engulfed the Cove, the small fishing vessel Sun’s Up was brightly lit by its namesake for a few minutes. However, the fog continued to advance and soon snuffed the sunlight as you would a candle flame.
About 20 minutes later and a few miles to the south, we also were lucky enough to watch the 145-foot-long schooner Heritage being pushed by its yawl boat through the incoming fog and fading dusk light:
It was coming into our Great Cove to shelter for the night as the fog continued to thicken. (Brooklin, Maine)