On Saturday, November 18th, after stopping in Kennebunkport at the Rusty Fly Gallery to drop off some of my paintings we drove a short way over to Gooch's beach. On this day, it could certainly be called Pooch's beach because there were so many dogs! They were all running around and playing and I could of sworn many of them were smiling.  We started our walk down at the south end where the jetty flanks the Kennebunk River and ended up at the North end on Middle beach and Oaks neck. Here we found lots of great tide pools and shells. Even though it was a cloudy day it was a pleasant walk along this pretty little beach. It was especially fun looking around the tide pools. Enjoy this short video of Gooch's beach and some of the neat seashells we found.

The next day we walked Wells Beach in between the rain drops. It was a beautiful morning enveloped in fog. Here we found a few more shells as seen below. You can see the nice striped dog whelks from Gooch's beach and a soft shell clam, some oysters, a surf clam, slipper shell, and a tortoiseshell limpet (sitting on the oyster shell)! 

In early November we traveled up to Ogunquit, Wells, and Kennebunkport Maine. 
We decided to walk from beautiful Laudholm Farm in Wells down to the beach and along the seashore to Drake’s Island beach. Drake’s Island is right across from Wells beach. It is a nice walk along the shore with lots of sanderlings skittering along the incoming waves looking for things to eat in the sand.
We found good specimens of horse tail kelp attached to large horse mussels and rocks, we also found Southern Kelp and Sea Colander Kelp.  (At one point I call the kelp a plant but they are not plants they are marine algae.) There were tons of Surf clams and we were able to watch a sea gull flying up with a clam and then dropping it to break it open! That was a treat and I hope to catch a video of it in the future.
We also found Northern Moon Snails, Slipper shells, Periwinkles, Dog whelks (Dogwinkles), Rock Crabs, Crab claws and Lobster Claws. We found several broken Sand Dollars but none that were whole. You can see in the video there was a lobster trap also washed up on shore. It was a beautiful day and if you watch to the end of the video you will get a good view of the entire beach at Drake’s Island.
Enjoy!

This view is actually from Wells Beach looking over to Drake's Island. You can just make out Drake's Island jetty on the right.

I also took this photo while walking through the rose hips and dunes of Wells beach.