Destinations in Maine
The Maine coast is extraordinarily beautiful. Here are a few highlights you may wish to consider visiting. Caponigro Arts is located in midcoast Maine making many destinations accessible. See Studio for more details.
Popham Beach State Park | Reid State Park | Pemaquid Point | Long Cove Quarry | Hewitt's Island | Rockland Breakwater | Fernald's Neck | Mount Desert Island - Sand Beach and Thunder Hole
Popham State Beach
Some of the largest and most scenic sand beaches buffer the marsh at Popham. The surf and tideline are mesmerizing. Two rivers, one small and slow below, and one large and strong above, flank these sandy shores. At low tide, you can wade to a nearby island.
Reid State Park
A grand overview allow you to survey the nearby river as it plunges in the tidal zone, tall evergreen forests atop rocky ledges, and the long sandy beach that stretches south towards distant islands. A large marsh, full of cattails, separates two entrances to the shore, linked by the beach.
Pemaquid Point
Pemaquid Light presides over dramatic slabs of granite that crash down to the tumbling shoreline. Islands drift on the far horizon, nearly lost in the great Atlantic Ocean. Clouds drift by endlessly.
Long Cove Quarry
It looks like an abandoned sculpture garden. Three large pools of water are nested, below towering cliffs, amid piles of rubble. Large blocks rise out amid a flurry of small chips lumbering and lurching from point to point. A walk along the rim provides many bird's-eye-views.
Hewitt's Island
The rocky shores of the Maine islands are quite extraordinary. A walk around Hewitt's Island at low tide provides views out across the Atlantic Ocean to the distant horizon, dow into the emerald depths of the Penobscott Bay, and over the sensuous granite undulations of the shoreline where the two meet. You'll find surprises at every turn.
Rockland Breakwater
Huge masses of cut stone form a path one mile long that reaches out into the Rockland harbor to the Rockland light. In no time at all, you'll find you've walked out into the water. The mood is as changeable as the weather and light.
Fernald's Neck
A walk along the shoreline of Lake Meguniticook at Fernalds Neck is also a walk through towering cathedral woods. The view across beds of pine needles clustered with fern, under lush canopies, and out to the waters beyond is idyllic. Occasionally, slabs of granite allow you to hop a short way out into the lake.
Mount Desert Island
Acadia National Park offers some of the richest and most abundant shores along the Maine coast. At Thunder Hole, the tide crashes across large surf worn stones, into tall cliffs, and through dark blow-oles. At Sand Beach, a lazy river winds its way across dunes out toward nearby islands. Further on, high overlooks provide grand views of the surf below and the far shores beyond.
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