Prouts Neck Cliff Walk

Matt & Becky are visiting for the Labor Day weekend and wanted to get out for a hike.  Let's pile everybody in the mini-van and head up to Maine!  Rather than visit the famous (crowded) cliff walk in Ogunquit, Matt found a equally beautiful one in Scarborough.

While we missed Cassandra and Alex most of the day due to some health issues, we did our best to enjoy a day by the sea.

This short hike was a shuttle.  Betsy dropped Matt, Becky and me off near the Black Point Inn to start.

But first, Dominic finds the beach amid grasses much taller than he is.

A beautiful stretch of beach where the Scarborough River empties into Saco Bay.

A classic white picket fence near the beginning of the hike looking northward into the bay.

This is NOT somebody in our party.

I know the tide is low, but he might want to be real careful.

Cliffs.

Cliffs and rocks.

If you had a house on the distant shore, you would have a fantastic ocean view.

We were on a little bridge looking down.  It's a pretty severe drop.  It would be unlikely that one would actually hit the water should they fall.

Matt ventures down to an outcropping.

That green area is another neck of land out on the end of this neck of land.

Most of the hike around the neck put us right on the rocky shoreline.

But some of it was among the low scrub.

"Splash!"

Rocky coastline.
Does this qualify as a "selfie" (see lower right corner).

The land has been eroded away to the path we're on.

We made our way back to the beach where Dominic and Betsy were playing.  Dominic was practicing his "swimming" on the sand.

Between the end of the cliff walk and the parking lot, we walked down a long sandy beach.  There were kite surfers there careening across the bay.  The wind was blowing them our way.  I had to watch a while to see how they were getting back. 

Walk stats:

Total Distance:  2.62 miles

Total Time:  1:16

Average Speed:  2.07 mph

Max altitude:  43 ft

Min altitude:  0 ft (sea level) - doh!