The North Estonian Klint is a limestone escarpment that runs for hundreds of kilometres along the northern coast of Estonia, from the Pakri Peninsula in the west to beyond Narva in the east. Where it meets the sea it forms dramatic cliff faces, sometimes reaching 50 metres or more above the water. Around Toila the klint is particularly striking — the cliff face drops sharply to a narrow pebble beach, and the overhang of the limestone layers is visible in the rock face itself.
The klint formed at the edge of the ancient Baltoscandian sea bed and consists of Ordovician limestone roughly 480 million years old. The fossils embedded in the rock face — ancient sea creatures from a warm shallow ocean — are visible if you look carefully at fallen cliff slabs on the beach. The geological contrast between this ancient seabed and the Baltic visible just offshore is one of those moments where landscape history becomes suddenly legible.