"soave"

"Acadia National Park, Maine"

"22 mile swim cut short to 17 miles by a storm kayakers could not handle."

"Aged rocky faces, staring out to sea, braced against its pounding thunder, sending water exploding, and my eyes, skyward to witness rain crossing over some mountaintops in the distance while simultaneously, sunlight illumined others, and where they commmingled, a rainbow, whose otherwise alien colors began its climb from the ground only to disappear early in its arcing movement, dissolving in the opacity of the heavy mist still hiding the peaks of earth which left me wondering, where, or do, they end?"

"Arrived just as the sun was setting."