Feeling lazy for lunch today, we headed to Scarborough to El Rayo. First good choice of the day – it’s Maine Restaurant Week, so they had a special menu, which involved some amazing enchiladas, and one of the best chocolate puddings I’ve ever had.
Since we were most of the way there, we decided to head over to the Scarborough Marsh (second good choice of the day). For backstory – we had a nor’easter come through yesterday. It was all rain, and way worst further south, so we weren’t thinking about it. It was also the full moon on the 1st. So when we first saw the marsh, from Route 1, it definitely looked full. And then, we got down Pine Point Road, and our jaws dropped. It was like there was no marsh. (Here‘s my last visit in September, for contrast.) High tide was 11:55 – we were there maybe half an hour after that. The water was still pushing in, from the wind.
We only went as far as the bridge. You can’t quite see from the pictures, but the water had come over part of the path, further down. At which point we realized we needed to get to Crescent Beach, stat, and hied it back to the car (third good choice of the day). By the time we got back to Route 1, the lane closest to the marsh was blocked, because of the tide.