we are about two miles north of the little town of ogunquit. it’s very touristy. and stuffed with terrible traffic and little shops and restaurants. but, just past that, there’s a litle walkway that strolls along the waterfront, called marginal way. it was on my list to do while we are here, and since it seemed short, we decided to save it for an evening activity, so derek could come along and take part in one of our adventures (versus sitting at the camper, working hard to fund our activities).
there were many spots to climb down onto the rocks or go to the beach. my kids preferred the rock climbing. the pics don’t show it well, but we are pretty high up a lot of the time. you can see tiny little figures of people down below, for scale.
on the lower parts of the rocks, there was lots of sea life to explore. snails and mussels everywhere. and an occasional dead crab or crab appendage. so we climbed and hopped rocks and explored there for awhile…
then the older two kids and derek climbed over another rock, while hazel and i went around, the safe way.
there were lots of benches for quiet meditation and ocean gazing, but we didn’t do much of that. it’s not really the lidkids’ thing. but, see that long hunk of rocks stretching out into the water behind us? the next pictures are from us “walking” out that.
isaac was the leader of the pack.
at the end, the waves were crashing and swirling and looked pretty dangerous, so we steered clear. the tide was also coming in, so every now and then a big wave would reach up a little closer than we bargained for. (i think this whole formation is under water during high tide).
all of the crevices were like little aquariums of sea life. pretty sweet.
mussel mania.
even hazel made it out, with the help of derek, even though she was adamant that she didn’t need help.
proud hiker, rock scaler girl.
all of my peeps.
the anna baby loves to explore.
running from the waves.
the boy.
hazel and i started to make our way back. she mostly made the trip back without help, except for a giant crevice here and there.
anna stayed for observations.
back on the path, it was getting dark, but we pressed on, hoping to find a geocache.
i don’t understand the science of it, but the sunset somehow made the (eastern) ocean skies pink and purple.
while the big kids looked for the (never to be found) geocache, hazel and i had a sunset photoshoot.
she wasn’t extra cooperative but at least she didn’t cover her face. 🙂
so, at this point, we had to make a straight shot back to the start of the path, so i loaded up the crazel in the backpack and we basically race walked in the dark back to the car. we may or may not go back during high tide, just to see the differences.
the end.