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Travelers from all over the world flock to the Southern Maine coast for the ideal summer vacation. .page .lead { padding: 0 60px 0 60px; } THE GEOMETRIC confusion of silhouetted rooflines, a sunrise or sunset streaking the backdrop orange and pink, the spring tide surging through the spindly forest of pilings: you can keep your Portland Head Light for our money, the Old Orchard Beach pier is the states most compelling man-made landmark. A brilliant display on a warm spring day. Battie Trail (each isa half-mile). If you are a resident of another country or region, please select the appropriate version of Tripadvisor for your country or region in the drop-down menu. Explore Boon Island Lighthouse and Nubble Lighthouse on this tour that cruises up the coastline. Bowdoin College Coastal Studies Center Their morning lunch cruise includes an hour-plus stop on the island of Frenchboro. Photographs: Michael D. Wilson (ice cream, punch, lobster roll, taffy, clams, beach glass); Mark Fleming (fries, donuts). Bayview Takeout Ashley Billman, Down East reader. Plummer Point Preserve Sandy, paid parking, concessions, showers and toilets. Where receptacles are available, dont fill them with huge bags or large items like broken umbrellas or chairs. Where to kayak, see seals, forage for mussels and blueberrie - Maine We have on goal: to help you fall more in love with the state of Maine! A high-energy, improv-heavy flute, cello, and drum trio. The ship skeleton made its most recent and most publicized appearance, following one of the winter storms the media dubbed a bomb cyclone.. Its pricey, but so picturesque. Steve Dunne ran the place from 1993 to 2014, then opened his own stand across the way, serving generous scoops of Shains of Maine right in between Short and Long Sands beaches. Seals - Maine Forum - Tripadvisor Hardy Boat Cruises, based in New Harbor on Maine's Pemaquid Peninsula, runs a Puffin Watch cruise in the Spring with Audubon naturalists starting in early June (and without Audubon naturalists beginning in mid-May). And were not using the word massive lightly. The seals disperse when the baitfish run disappears, usually about the time the stripers start returning, ie early June or thereabouts. Golden Road 207-230-8495. Sandy, free (limited) parking, no facilities. Come see us at the Visitor Center Monday to Friday, from 8:00-4:30. It is against the law to handle a marine mammal without proper authorization, and their sharp (dog-like) teeth can be very dangerous. Fall is when the impressive antlers of the bull moose are fully formed. Address: 2. To report seal strandings south of Maine, please call the NOAA Fisheries Stranding Hotline: (866) 755-6622.