Photo of the Day 272

Boat at Low Tide, County Mayo, Ireland, 2003

Photograph by Chris Rainier

A fishing boat, beached by low tide, leans against seaweed-covered rocks in Ireland's Sruwaddacon Bay. The waters of this picturesque estuary, located in County Mayo on the northwest coast, are in constant motion, emptying and filling the riverlike bay four times each day.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Far Edge of Ireland," March 2003, National Geographic magazine)