A colorized photographic postcard of a large rock on the ocean's edge, with a child seated on top of it. In the distance is a steamship. Text on the front reads "Balance Rock, showing British Cruiser 'Indefatigable,' Bar Harbor, Me." There is a handwritten note on the front which reads "This is the post master of Bar Harbor who is wondering at what you will say next. It was for a case of 'what are the wild waves saying." Love from us [illegible]." The postcard is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay Barnabee, Innisfail, Vineyard Haven, Mass. and is postmarked from Bar Harbor, Me. on August 20, 1905.