Inlets here are among the most dynamic places, especially during recent winters when we’ve had extreme weather changes. Here you see one of our favorite inlets during a lowering tide in Great Cove on a cold day this month:
This is a place where Native Americans sheltered and drank from its meandering stream. Sea birds still shelter in and around there during bad weather.
On the day that this image was taken, as you can see, the sand, pebbles, and sea grasses there were sheeted with sea ice that had a thin covering of snow. Three days earlier, during a much warmer time, we had a super-high tide that flowed into the inlet and devoured the stream:
We expect a huge tide today with the arrival of the full moon. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 11 and 14, 2024.)