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Tidal Pools, West Gouldsboro, Maine, 1984
Photo: Tidal pools at twilight
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Tidal pools gleam in twilight near West Gouldsboro, in Maine’s Hancock County. Commercial fishing and tourism dominate the county, which is home to Acadia National Park.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "A Journey Down Old U.S. 1," December 1984, National Geographic magazine)

Photograph by Bruce Dale

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