So, I can't speak to this beach in the summer time - just the shoulder season - but that's when I'd advise locals to go (unless you need to swim; which I totally get as I'm a mermaid, but there is something to be said about just sitting peacefully and letting the sounds, smells, and site of the Atlantic wash over you - it's relaxing, rejuvenating, and a reminder of the bigger world... what? the ocean doesn't inspire profound thoughts in you as well?).
We came in early November on a Sunday, parked on Route 1A by a 2-hr parking sign, and walked down to the loop at the end of Harbor Beach Rd near Cliff Walk, and just sat on the concrete path leading to the beach eating our lunch. It was bliss. The abundant and unseasonably warm sunshine, the vast expanse of ocean ebbing and flowing, the sloping crescent shaped sandy beach... there was nothing not perfect about it. Definitely one of the most memorable afternoons I've had in a long time! read more