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Welcoming sign on Maine border:


Governor's mansion:

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

I notice in that beach scene - not a lot of people in the water.

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David L (CA)
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” - Groucho Marx

LOL,
I noticed the same.

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Bob C

When I lived down the coast from Maine in Mass. the water temperature in Summer was typically in the 50s F, we would have blue lips when we came out of the water. Once the current swings East at Cape Cod the coastal water stays pretty cold.

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BobA

David,



Where I am that invariably means sharks.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/anima ... 2c3yc.html

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James Daly

"It is the Lord." (Jn 21:7)

You're right. I hadn't noticed myself.

It's probably June. In June the water is still too cold to swim in. You can't wade in deeper than your ankles.
However,
the water is shallow for a long way out and the sun warms it up.
By the Fourth of July, the first really big tourist week, the water is very warm and the real crowds are here.

That's Old Orchard Beach, by the way, loose yellow sand, the perfect beach.

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

Oops!

That's Ogunquit Beach, some 8 or 10 miles south of Old Orchard.

The house covered land above is similar to a land feature next to Old Orchard.

Old Orchard Beach:





Digging holes in the sand is a favorite activity:


Vintage postcard. Huge dancehall at end of pier attacted big names in its day: Count Basie, everybody. Long since destroyed by storms. But now we have bikinis.

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

Perhaps the Massachusetts coast gets deep quickly?

Look at the vintage postcard in my last post. The pier was a thousand feet long in those days yet the end was still held up by wooden poles. The "ground" under the water is nearly horizontal for a long way out, that is, shallow and warmed by the sun by July 4.

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

The coast does drop off fairly quick at low tide but at high tide there is a lot of shallow water to wade in. I'm talking about my preteen years so when I describe the water depth it is relation to someone between 4 and 5 feet tall. As I remember it, there is also a pretty good current that flows along Lynn Beach, Nahant on the South and Swampscott on the North. so the water exchange might keep it from getting too warm.

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BobA

This diagram shows Saco Bay which is a half circle protected from ocean currents. Old Orchard is in the middle. The water is no more than a hundred feet depth for miles out to sea.

The entire Maine coast has islands and peninsulas that stop ocean currents. The Maine coastline, if you walked along the water's edge, is longer than Cahleefourneeah's.

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Norman
...that is the regret of a lot of old people when they look back and realize too late what might have been.
This was what President Martin regretted. He thought he was doing something good. It was a disaster. How can anybody know what is the right thing to do?
-- Theresa

I looked at the almanac data for the Lynn/Nahant beach water temperatures dating back to 1984 and it shows the mid-Summer water temperature is higher than I remember it so either my memory of the forties and early fifties is flawed or I'm remembering early or late Summer extremes but I do clearly remembering the water being very cold. The data do not indicate tide or time of day; I assume high tide data would be warmer due to the large expanse of shallower water as would late afternoon versus early morning temperatures.

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BobA

Beautiful pictures. Thanks. Someday I'm going to get there.

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Dean
Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time - Benjamin Netanyahu

It also means some of the deadliest jelly fish in the world, correct? The sea wasp?

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Andrew McAllister

Respect for the dignity of every innocent human being from conception/fertilization, without exception, without compromise, without apology.

Andrew,

They're only found in the very far north. None at Bondi.

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James Daly

"It is the Lord." (Jn 21:7)