I just went back on June 21, and the end of the 'pond' closest to Balanced Rock is filled with plume grass. The other end is open water, I don't know how deep (inches maybe??) and how much is boot sucking mud (feet maybe??)
It was a drizzly morning. The stripes are from the uneven way rain drains off the rock, providing different environments for what is growing on it. I noticed that there is something new to me-deep mahogany colored stuff that grows on rocks first, before the lichens.
In another park nearby, there is a bear petroglyph. It looks like the part behind the 'neck' spalled off. There are similar grooves on the other end, but again, portions have spalled off.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road