Seen from above, Cape Akin draws a clean line between land and sea.
Bronze grasses and low shrubs press to the cliff edge, then drop to shelves of dark rock where the Black Sea frays into white. Footpaths curve along the ridge—the tracks of anglers and walkers heading for the point. In the lee, the water turns bottle-green, revealing pockets of reef; on the windward side it deepens to cobalt and slide of swell. This is the quiet edge of Chernomorets, between Burgas and Sozopol, yet it feels removed—more weather than town. From the air the coast’s geometry becomes legible: folds and fractures, tidemarks and shadow, the patient work of salt and sun shaping Bulgaria’s southern shoreline.

Photo by Val