Can't. Stop. Beachcombing.

This is seriously becoming an addiction which is escalating.  I was at my mom's one day and decided to stop at Boardwalk on the way home and take a few pics.  Oh who was I kidding....I was gonna beachcomb on Town Neck Beach to Old Harbour, and I knew it.

I had a vague inkling that it was going to be close to low tide.  Crossing the Boardwalk, I saw I was right.

The beach was empty as it was a cool, partly cloudy weekday, and there was a lot of beach to start combing.

Not too bad!

So many rocks.....further hurt the foot that I twisted walking on Scusset so I ended up foregoing the glass hunt and moved back up to the sand.

This was a very nice find.  Still not fully cooked but still cloudy.

Barge getting towed to the Canal to the west (behind me...I was walking east).

I got to the first breakwater at Old Harbor.  This is so unusual compared to the other jetties on the Bay side beaches.  More like Jersey barriers.

And looking over to the other one.  The few times I've been here, there was water separating the two and this was the first time I was going to get to walk over to it.  At least the tide doesn't come in quickly, like in the Bay of Fundy.

Looking back at the first breakwater.

The tide was so low that I could almost have waded across to the Spring Hill Beach side, but it would not have been a wise thing to do.  If I'd gotten stranded on that side I'd have been screwed big time.

Holy rock Batman!  That translucent green seaweed was all over the place and faking me out because I thought it was glass.

Cape Light and fall colours.

Looking back at the entrance to Old Harbor.

Mill Creek through the marshes

When I got back to the staircase that takes you to Boardwalk and the parking lot, I stopped to shoot the views east of me of the beach.

And marshes behind the dunes.

Town Neck Beach to the west.  Dune One is down there.

Back on Boardwalk to get to my car.

Marshes turning colour.

Couldn't resist an underside shot.

Then this happened when I stepped on what I thought was solid mud.  It was not.

Obligatory bridge shot.

The finds for the day.  Love that Pacman rock!

Wintery Day in Sandwich

These were taken in mid-February, after our snowstorms.  I loved how the postal trucks looked all lined up in the parking lot.  Wonder why they weren't out delivering?  It was 10:00 a.m. on a weekday!

Marshes & Boardwalk

Town Neck Beach, swept clean of rocks after all the fall and winter storms.

Entrance to Old Harbor

The beach also suffered terrible erosion from the storms.

There was a lot of 'caution' tape on this staircase down to the beach but I climbed over it anyway.  

Looking down Boardwalk

Silly doggy watching me take pictures.

Brrrrr 

Spring Hill at Old Harbor

There's a part of Sandwich called Old Harbor that can only be accessed on either side by walking along the beach.  I don't recall ever going there when I was a kid...I just remember once in the mid/late 80s walking down Spring Hill with my dad to Old Harbor, and back to a cottage some cousins were renting.  It was kind of far from even his cottage when I was little and I wasn't allowed to leave the confines of the jetties in front of it, so I just never got down there.  This day I drove as far as I could on the road along the marshes, parked, and badly trespassed between 2 cottages to get to the beach.  Some of these places have become year round homes, so I was really taking a huge chance doing this.  

This is the entrance to Old Harbor from Cape Cod Bay.  The channel becomes Mill Creek and that's what the Boardwalk spans, farther down the marshes.

Boardwalk would be way down there.

One of these days I'll park at Town Neck and walk on that side of Old Harbor.

This was the first time, that I can remember, that I've ever laid eyes on those rocks.  This is my hometown and I'm still finding things I've never seen before.

The current moves quickly as the tide was going out. It also drops off quite deep, so it's not something that people swim across.  Some people do 'the float', which is floating down the creek in inner tubes to around this point.

Massive sand damage to the beach grass.

Marshes

It was definitely warm this day but I wouldn't say it was 'let's wear shorts and take the jet ski onto the Bay' warm.

I love rocks.  Picked up some unique ones down this end. And I also found 2 sand dollars.