The Maine Beaches Visitor Guide 2020 Visitor's Guide to The Maine Beaches | Page 36

ON-THE-WATER ACTIVITIES
There’s nothing like having unlimited access to the Atlantic Ocean; its vast beauty
affixing your gaze to the horizon, its foamy surf at times crashing and at other times
gently lapping against the shore.
Just look: on-the-water
adventure of all kinds, for
all kinds of adventurers,
can be found everywhere.
Numerous sightseeing tour boats are available for many styles of pleasure trips.
You can even spend time aboard a working lobster boat or turn a three-hour tour
into a true seafaring adventure. Experienced captains regale visitors with sea legends
while demonstrating age-old lobstering skills—pulling up traps bursting with our
state’s favorite crustacean and other creatures like starfish and crabs. View minkes
and humpbacks aboard a whale watch trip out of Kennebunk. Turn your gaze inland
for a new perspective on our historic seaside villages, lined with vintage sea captains’
houses, real working lighthouses, and the Bush family compound at Walker’s Point.
Away from the shore, the region has a fair share of lakes and ponds, too. Head inland
for summertime waterskiing or drop a line for exciting bass fishing on our perfectly
situated ponds. Then once winter comes, these same lakes, like Great East Lake and
Shapleigh’s Square Pond, offer up southern Maine’s best ice fishing with trophy-size
togue and lake trout.
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