Beach Time At Long Last

I was finally able to squeeze in a little bit of beach time and a spin around Sandwich taking some pictures.  Unfortunately we don't have much foliage because it's been a very warm & humid fall.  The trees are making the ol' college try but the leaves are either almost blown off or rapidly turning brown.

Still though, it was a nice day for some beachcombing.  The water was calm too.  Not much beach glass though.  Only found 2 pieces total.  

My first stop was Town Neck in Sandwich.  Now that parking fee season is over, I can hit the beaches more often.

Tide was coming in.

Cape Cod Bay on the left and the salt marshes/Mill Creek on the right

Mill Creek

Under Boardwalk

It's been a few years since it's been repaired and is a bit cattywampus these days.

Then over to the other part of the beach to see what cairns are there now.  Some jerks made it a point of knocking them down after I was there, but they always get rebuilt.

I was excited to find that rock!  It's with the heart rock we found at Tobey Hospital in the livingroom.

Making the Best of Yet Another Cold Day

We've gotten April off to a very cold start too!  But I took a little time to bop around downtown Sandwich one Sunday morning. 

This is outside the Glass Museum

There's a cell tower being put up on the steeple and I hope it doesn't mess up how nice the steeple looks.

Dexter's Grist Mill, looking really worse for the wear.

This whole herring run has been redone and a huge, beautiful old weeping willow was taken down.  All of the old timers are crushed that the tree is gone....I am heartbroken.  Apparently the roots were weakening the rock wall and the only way to do this project was to take the tree down.

Grist Mill & Town Hall

Newcomb's Tavern.

Town Hall

Then I drove over to Boardwalk and it was so cold and windy....too cold for my jean jacket.  People were quahogging in Mill Creek.

These are oyster cars (that's what Russell called them) and this is the first time that either of us has ever seen any kind of shellfishing in Mill Creek.  The creek featured above eventually makes it's way down here and all of the runoff and crap from town gets swept here. I would not eat shellfish from Mill Creek, no way, no how.

On the way back to town, I pulled over near the marshes to get a few low tide pics from that vantage point.  When I saw the brickwork like this, I wondered if it was part of the old Glass Factory, which meant I might have a shot at finding chunks of broken Sandwich Glass in the mud.  I figured there was no way because I was sure people have picked through it for the past 100 years or so.

So I ventured out onto the mud to get a few snappies.

I never knew there was a little dock out here.

A swing in the yard of the house that was next to me. I look forward to seeing green trees, hopefully soon.

But then.....