Yesterday afternoon was so gorgeous I thought I would take a ride to Coast Guard Beach and take a few photographs from the path to the beach. Was I in for a big surprise when I saw that the barrier was gone and the beach was open!
What a beautiful day it was! I hadn’t been to the beach in a while with the rainy and windy weather that we’ve been having here on the Cape. I walked all the way to Nauset Spit and loved every second of it! Pinch me!
Ballston Beach in Truro is such beautiful beach which has changed so dramatically in the past decade. You can see on the left side of the first photograph where it broke through the dunes in 2013, but better in the 2nd photo. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
“For two days in February of 2013, a blizzard packing hurricane force winds pounded Cape Cod. One of the areas that suffered the most damage was Ballston Beach, a popular spot on Truro’s Atlantic-facing coastline. When high tide struck on the evening of February 8, the storm surge broke through the dunes, pushing water from the ocean all the way back to the Upper Pamet River Valley.” Wow! What a story!
Last winter we all watched that house (not in the photograph) on Ballston Beach teetering on the dunes in a bad winter storm, only to be moved to safer ground. Does anyone know if it was located nearby?
We had never been to Pamet Harbor, so we took a ride up there the other day. It was so pretty with their vast beaches and secluded salt marshes and this beautiful dock that extended way out into the harbor.
It must look so different in season when it is crowded with boats and people. You can see all of the moorings waiting for their boats…
