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With an invitation to visit friends whose vacation home here has a view of the invigorating Atlantic coming ashore rambunctiously and unrestrained.

The sheer power of the sea mesmerizes, yet there is a symphony which soothes the emotions and reminds you that the enormity of this body of water is overwhelming and breathtaking.  That each of us is nothing more than a speck on the landscape. 

There has been adventure on both sides of the youngest of the five oceans, which begs the question who determined that and how?   Kids play in the ocean on the Atlantic seaboard from Key West to Maine.  Also, along the coast of South America, Africa, and Europe.

There is fascination with the fishing villages on both sides of the Atlantic, with ships with tall masts and a little dinghy or two bouncing about.  There are tanker ships and seagoing vessels of all descriptions.

You may find the Navy’s biggest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford in the North Atlantic, and you might also find a lonely fisherman casting his nets off the coast of Iceland.

While I might get seasick in the shower, I have enjoyed some of the great ports of the Atlantic which I have seen from a Coast Guard cutter, the USS Unimak, to an assortment of fishing boats and pleasure vessels.

One of the most interesting tourist investments is to take a boat trip around Manhattan Island.   An unforgettable moment to frame in your mind’s eye is a fisherman fly casting under the Brooklyn Bridge with New York’s skyline in the background. 

You can have that opportunity if you take a taxi or uber over the bridge to Brooklyn and start walking from Tillary Street and Boerum Place.  Make sure you do it at sunrise for a memorable experience that without doubt, will make you commit for an encore.

Big cities or small, there will be something to do on the Atlantic that will leave you with the greatest emotional high even if it is only getting to a waterfront restaurant in Boston, which is reachable via water taxi.

To appreciate the best of the abundant ports on the Atlantic, it is incumbent for you to find your way to the towns on the East Coast from Maine to Florida with countless coastal villages in between.

Every seaside stop on the coast of Maine reeks with charm.  There is enchantment and inspiration, a seascape that every artist covets. If you are overwhelmed with how a place looks, especially the coastal places, then you are not only likely to enjoy fulfillment when there is visual opportunity, which brings about food options.   Maine has more of that than any state.  There is not a bad view or a bad meal.

When you think of the Eastern seaboard of the U. S., have you ever wondered about the West side of Europe and Africa.  Many Americans know about what the west coast of England and Scotland have to offer, owing to the game of golf.  France has villages that are comparable to those in Maine.

There are nice playgrounds on Spain’s West side, also Morocco, especially Casablanca, and one of the most beautiful cities in the world is Cape Town, South Africa.   Go there and you might consider becoming a resident; it’s that kind of place.   

Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks and Virginia Beach, Virginia; Annapolis, Md., Darien on Georgia’s coast are but a few of the villages which enrapture visitors.   Honfleur, the village where artist Monet spent time in his early days, has charm equal to that of Cape Town; Bar Harbor, Maine; Nagshead, North Carolina; Georgetown, S. C.; Narragansett, R. I., Islamorada, Fla., and Cape Cod.

You will find nothing but nature’s best at all of these places, there is food and frolic galore, but many of them, especially in Florida, are subject to the back of nature’s hand.  Hurricanes have not been kind to those charming villages and sometimes a hurricane with a wild hair, might wreak havoc far to the North.

The mighty Atlantic, named for Atlas of Greek mythology, leaves one in awe from the shorelines of little villages to deep water ports in New York to Johannesburg.  And places like the shrimp boat docks in Darien, GA..