With beautiful weather and bright, deep blue skies, we picked a fantastic day to go to see this natural wonder. We arrived at 10 a.m., just as the tide was at its lowest point. That allowed us to walk on the ocean floor and see the magnificent "Flower Pot" rocks from below. We were lucky that, at such an early hour on a Sunday morning, we also managed to miss the usual crowds that flock to the site.
I under-exposed this shot just slightly to overcome the tendency of the bright sun to bleach out the colours. Just look at that sky, and the deep greens of the trees at the top left-hand corner of the frame. Wonderful. I had to use iPhoto's cropping function to trim the bottom and right side of the photo a bit, both for the sake of balance and to remove the one human figure that managed to sneak in. I think it's pretty great that I was able to get a number of scenic pictures without any bipeds in sight.
Three hours after this photo was taken, the tide had come in and the water levels had risen by almost 40 feet. That meant that the entire floor you see here was submerged and the water levels rose well past the base of kelp and seaweed at the base of these rocks. It's really quite amazing to see.
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