Bubble Rock is a glacial erratic left on a mountainside in Acadia National Park, Bubble Mountain to be specific. This stone was carried from miles inland and left here when the glaciers melted leaving it perched precariously since the last ice age.
It's startling when you first see it from the Park Loop Road but once you climb up you can see that it's actually quite stable and is resting in a small depression carved out of the surrounding granite...
Or so we thought until this recent 3.4 magnitude Earthquake!
I think.
Bubble Rock is a glacial erratic left on a mountainside in Acadia National Park, Bubble Mountain to be specific. This stone was carried from miles inland and left here when the glaciers melted leaving it perched precariously since the last ice age.
It's startling when you first see it from the Park Loop Road but once you climb up you can see that it's actually quite stable and is resting in a small depression carved out of the surrounding granite...
Or so we thought until this recent 3.4 magnitude Earthquake!
I think. 
is this photographic tomfoolery? is this real????
ReplyDeleteJKIRLIN - SAY IT ISN'T SO!
It is the man on the mountain!
3.4, was it? Were you killed by falling rocks?
ReplyDelete"..but once you climb up you can see that it's actually quite stable...".
ReplyDeleteAh-hah, and you did, did you?
I love playing the set-up guy....
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing what Photoshop or similar packages can do!
In reality, some rocks did come crashing down onto the Park Loop Road by Champlain Mtn, causing the road to be closed. I saw that in the Bangor Daily News online site yesterday.
The earthquakes began on the 3rd day we were on Mt Desert Island. Didn't even feel them. Have the
experts figured out what is causing them yet?
you know you climbed up there and pushed it off... oh the nerve blaming it on a poor little earthquake... how dare you !
ReplyDeleteFor more info on the latest earthquake & the scoop from seismologists, see http://www.mainecoastnow.com/articles/2006/10/05/bar_harbor_times/local_news/doc45239b54cadcd696542438.txt and http://www.mainecoastnow.com/articles/2006/10/05/bar_harbor_times/local_news/doc45229ef192924633653914.txt.
ReplyDeleteJkirlin, it looks like you are safe.
Okay, Jkirlin. What did you do with it. I'll bet he can't find his wallet, either.
ReplyDeleteNever question the wrath of rock! Just ask the Man of the Mountain.....(if you can find him....)!!
ReplyDeletespk: That is what I get for laughing at New Hampshire. :)
ReplyDeletenothing: I was! I did!
tomw: It WAS sort of an underhand pitch. :)
jik: I used my coring tube. Can I blame that?
tomw: I am safe because the forces of nature do my bidding. Never forget that.
wrath: I'm always losing my Bubble Rock.
klr: Is that like the wrath of Dawn?
I was there last week, and the rock is safe and secure!!
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