New Year’s Day was a glorious day here on Cape Cod with sunny skies, little wind and temperatures in the upper 40s. Perfect day for a walk on Coast Guard Beach!
We were so surprised to see how much the erosion had dug away at the dunes by the old path to the beach. At the beginning of last summer, you could walk down the path with a descent decline going down. By the middle of the summer, the decline had gotten so severe that the National Seashore closed that entrance to the beach and made an entirely new path to the beach a little ways away toward Nauset Light Beach.
You can see in the photograph where the fence is blocking the old path above where I am standing and how much the storms have eroded the dunes. It is just incredible!
This is such a pretty view looking across Nauset Marsh out toward Coast Guard Beach. And this Seagull just happened to be perched on this rock which made it even better.
I loved the colors. What do you think? The water is so still…
We were so surprised to see so many seals still swimming around at Coast Guard Beach the other day. They were pretty close to shore. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
It was low tide so we walked down the beach to Nauset Spit where we saw a huge sandbar covered with hundreds of seals. And were they making a racket! You could hear them from far away!
Phil and I were taking a walk on Coast Guard Beach the other day when we saw some little birds scurrying about in the and. At first we thought they were some late Piping Plovers, but the coloring wasn’t right. As we got closer, we realized that they were Sanderlings. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
“The first photo shows a Sanderling in winter plumage, the second photo shows a Sanderling molting out of its colorful breeding plumage.”
Thank you, Stephanie (Executive Director at Wild Care Cape Cod) for your expertise and knowledge of these wonderful little birds!
The coastline is ever-changing on Cape Cod as the tides go in and out and the storms come and go. I thought these ripples in the sand were really interesting on Coast Guard Beach at low tide.
What do you think?
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