Gravel Beach

The central Maine coast consists of long rocky points and equally long narrow inlets - following a linear pattern related to a combination o...

I guess this is where I got started on beaches - although I didn't appreciate its role in my career at the time. Reid State Park is loc...

Fort Popham is located at the mouth of the Kennebec River. This is a heavily indented bedrock coastline and the river has no exposed delta, ...

As the hotels built in the dunes (what dunes?) get bigger, this little beach resort starts to look like Myrtle Beach or Clearwater. Or at l...

There’s a lot less of this little beach community than there once was, a reminder that one should not buy property next to a jetty or build...

Revere Beach is a large swash-aligned barrier - sort of the northern counterpart of Nantasket on the south side of Boston Harbor. This plac...

I couldn't help but be impressed by the level of effort that has gone into protecting this little point of overbuilt low land. A new se...

The five sisters are five detached and segmented breakwaters located offshore of Winthrop Beach - on the exposed Atlantic Ocean side of the...

The islands in Boston Harbor are glacial knobs and drumlins, formed of outwash and shaped by the ice. At one time, this must have been para...

Winthrop lies just northeast of Boston. Like so much of the waterfront in Boston, it probably began as an island, tied together to the rest...