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Make sure it’s the Ogunquit Cliff Walk. There’s no better way to leisurely experience the Maine coast and you’ll get some exercise to boot. A definite win win.
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The 1.25 mile walk starts alongside a waterfront hotel with pristine fencing and gardens.
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Turn the corner, and the Atlantic Ocean beckons.
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Maine isn’t known for large resorts, we’re more of a bed and breakfast state, but the Anchorage By the Sea is well named.
You can’t get much closer to the ocean than that.
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Most of Maine’s beaches are rocky, but Wells… the neighboring town… has plenty of sand.
The Cliff Walk is fully paved and easy to traverse…. and did I mention there are rocks?
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When you marry a billy goat like my husband, rocks are never left unexplored.
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I can’t say enough good things about the beauty of this place and it’s hardly a surprise Ogunquit was an artist colony at the turn of the 20th century.
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Nature is a wonderous thing…. but sometimes she struggles to survive.
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Shame we need to be reminded of that…
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There are numerous memorial benches scattered here and there along the path…
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Perfect spots for quiet reflection and contemplation.
To be continued…
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River's world..... 
The whole time we drove to Maine, a long drive, I coached Cathy on the proper way to pronounce Ogunquit, and we never even went. I’ll be showing her these pics. Thanks for posting them.
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It’s a series… stay tuned.
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If your billy goat ever comes down to the D. C. area, we have a Billy Goat Trail in Potomac park. Mostly walkable but some of it involves some brief climbing.
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If there are rocks, he’d enjoy it. When we were in the French Alps years ago he literally climbed with wild goats.
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My son took a header into one of their rocky crevices when he was nine. Bad from him but worse for me because I had to carry him back. He was fine.
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Yikes. I know my limits when it comes to scrambling about in rocks, my husband on the other hand has never met a hill he wouldn’t climb.
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I wish I still had a picture I took in the Rockies, your hubby would have loved it. An almost sheer tock face, the result of some long ago rock slide. About 500 metres up the side of the cliff stood a mountain goat. How it got there, what it was standing on, where it was going, these things I will bever know. But there it was, majestic as hell, standing on seemingly nothing. I watched it for awhile, and held my breath with every jump it made. But it knew what it was doing, and why. I had to stop watching. It knew no fear. I knew nothing but fear, for it!
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They’re amazing to watch. The way they scramble around, so sure footed.
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Are you nuts! If I ever visit Maine, my ONLY destination is your husbands barn.
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Ha! Well I can’t blame you there….
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Today is National Donut (Doughnut?) Day.
One version is that the inventor was a mariner from Maine, and he even has an epitaph on his tombstone to prove it.
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I haven’t heard that story but am happy to take credit for our state.
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https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/meet-american-invented-donut
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Born in Camden. That’s a beautiful coastal town.
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What a beautiful spot…to walk, to listen, to just BE. Thank you for sharing!
Deb
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It really is. We love it…
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Having lived the majority of my life on the west coast, the Atlantic Ocean is pretty foreign to me…but still beautiful. It just seems so weird that you’d go to the beach to catch a sunrise instead of a sunset!
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Back at ya… in reverse.
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Sounds like a line from “Bonk.”
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Ha!
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You lost me with “you’ll get some exercise”—against my religion!
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It’s an easy stroll, fully paved and lots of benches to relax.
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Anyone wanting exercise should try Acadia National Park on the Maine coast (but much farther north). It has ocean and mountain scenery — both stunning!
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That’s for serious hikers.
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I’ve actually been to Ogunquit when I was a child! It was beautiful, but I don’t remember much more.
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It’s a lovely little town. Artsy, full of quirky shops and restaurants… but the coast? Stunning.
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Those pictures of how green and lush Maine is take my breath away. I sometimes long for a place green and full of beautiful vegetation to sit and quietly contemplate everything on my mind. It would definitely make me feel tons better.
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I need it. Green soothes my soul…
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