July 4th- Maine Coast

Fourth of July 2006
We woke up to a typical Maine coastal morning- very dense fog. We actually couldn’t see the waters edge looking out our balcony. However it was still warm and humid outside. We decided to drive to a walking path located at the next beach town- Ogunquit. Turned out that our little tourist maps left out a lot of detail. Ogunquit and Perkins Cove-the two ends of the path were both teaming with people and shops and the path crossed in front of several fancy beach front hotels-not exactly the remote, rugged Maine beach walk we were expecting. None the less it was great people watching and hanging out with the other half.
We were lucky to find a parking place at the Ogunquit beach end. Even as the fog continued to hover overhead, hundreds of families were arriving at the beach with their chairs and coolers and umbrellas in handy netted wheelbarrows. We got overpriced egg sandwiches from a beach front stand and walked into the little town and purchased souvenir sweatshirts and hat.
Then we drove to the other end of the trail- Perkins Cove, thinking, wrongly again, that we would have the place to ourselves. We again lucked into a parking space and found our way to the beach path. At this end we did find some of the rugged coastline we expected- see our pictures.
After returning to our motel we rode the tourist trolley to the York Beach commercial district where the merchants were happily ringing up sales as this was apparently the first decent weather of the summer. We found a couple more t-shirts we couldn’t resist before we reboarded the trolley to take us back to our beach. The sun never did fully break through all day but there were still families camped on the beach in the late afternoon.