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| Ogunquit |
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| Kennebunkport Beach |
These few days we are treating ourselves to a break from the trailer. We have rented a house with our friend Bobbie, who flew out to visit us for a few days. Ogunquit is in southern Maine, only an hour or so from Boston. It is a big time beach resort community. Cute town, but not in the historic fashion, as the town we have visited further north. This community and the others around it are geared for lots and lots of tourists for the summer season. This weekend this place was packed, but the swimming season is closed, so most visitors are not staying during the work week.
The beach here is wide and flat and I’m sure packed in the summer, but now that it is too cold to swim, it is filled with walkers like us enjoying the brisk air and clear skies. We have been enjoying the local seafood, and relaxing in a spacious house that doesn’t have wheels attached to it.
This area of southern Maine looks to be very prosperous. It is a beautiful area with beaches and harbors and mansions and cottages. The villages we visited, Kennebunkport, Perkins Cove, Ogunquit and York were settled in the late 1600s, but most of the buildings look to be 20th century. The villages are all cuted up and cater to the tourist trade. Think of Carmel stretching from Santa Cruz to Big Sur only with Cape Cod style. This area is a seasonal resort area, lots of places are beginning to close. All of the RV parks seem to be closed so it is a good thing we rented a house.
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| Pats, Bobbie & Dede at the beach |
We have made it a practice to have lobster everyday as we will be leaving the area in the next couple of days and want to be sure we’ve had our fill. Lobster at the lobster store is about $7 a pound, and then they will boil it for you.
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