Walk Ogunquit, Maine’s, Main Beach and Marginal Way
Ogunquit, or “beautiful place by the sea,’’ is how the Algonquin Indians described this 3½-mile stretch of flat sand along the southern Maine coast. Come here at the height of summer, however, and the Algonquins would have to rename the village “far too crowded place by the sea.’’
In the off-season, you can pull your car into the main parking lot and stroll along the shore with local dog walkers to your heart’s content. Inhaling deeply of salty air proves to be therapeutic any time of year.
For an encore, continue on the Marginal Way, a paved footpath that leads from the Main Beach up the rugged cliffs to the picturesque fishing harbor and seafood restaurants of Perkins Cove. You’ll pass century-old cedar trees and stunted pines. Out at sea, you might spy tough-as-nails fishermen plying the frigid waters in their trawlers to haul in the winter catch.
That should whet your appetite for the two-tiered shellfish tower at MC Perkins Cove, a seafood restaurant run by Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier, acclaimed chefs and co-owners of nearby Arrows. After a long seaside walk, you’ve earned any of the lobster tail, shrimp, tuna sashimi, crab salad, oysters on the half-shell, and mussels.
STEPHEN JERMANOKSTEPHEN JERMANOK
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