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If you only do one thing when you visit southern Maine…

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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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29 thoughts on “If you only do one thing when you visit southern Maine…”

  1. 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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      3. 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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  6. 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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  9. 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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