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. Nubble Light 34 A TheMaineBeaches C @ TheMaineBeaches # themainebeaches