Jetties

If you grew up in coastal New England, you are familiar with the use of very large rocks on the beaches known as jetties, or breakwaters.  You find them mostly on the Bay side of Cape Cod, and they are placed on the beaches to help slow down erosion from the waves and tides.  Oddly enough there are no jetties at Sandy Neck Beach, despite it's location on Cape Cod Bay.  They were fun to climb and play on when I was a kid, leaping from stone to stone, although I dare not try that now with my bad knees and weak ankles.  Now I pick my way very carefully over and on them!!  I always search the nooks and crannies for beach glass that gets lodged from the shifting sands and tides.  Erosion has taken over as time has gone by over the last 40+ years.  The jetties in front of the giant home that stands where my dad's cottage used to be are all buried in sand.  The 'top rocks' are now just about beach level and the rocks that used to be beach level & created the pool effect have been long buried.  I'd guess there's at least 6' of sand that's on top of them.

When I was growing up and went to our cottage on Spring Hill a lot, the jetties were my fave place to play. Like little beach forts made of rocks.  It was fun to play around them during high tide because the large spaces between the ones that were beach level filled up with water like little pools.  I used to sit on the rocks for hours, daydreaming and and watching the water.  If it was windy, you could sit on the beach with your back against the rocks and it'd be more comfortable.

I shot these on Town Neck Beach, near the entrance of Old Harbour in February.