You can hardly see where the jetty is on the Eastham side of Rock Harbor. It’s been so cold and there is so much ice on the bay, that it’s hard to even see the jetty, especially at high tide.
But such a pretty photo, don’t you think? I love the ice all around… it looks so cold!
It was pretty cool looking out on Cape Cod Bay and seeing all of the ice chunks that had broken apart bobbing in the water. If you stared long enough, they were almost mesmerizing as they went up and down…
Yesterday’s sunset was so pretty and so cold!! Temps were 18 degrees with the wind chill of 9 degrees with swirling snow throughout the day. But oh, so pretty!!
I’ve always wondered what those orange buoys were for at First Encounter Beach. It just didn’t make sense to have these orange buoys so close to shore. (Click on blog link for other photos.)
And then we stopped there the other day and saw all of the tire tracks in the sand and it all made sense. Do you know what those buoys are for?
These orange buoys are like a road map that the trucks drive through at low tide to reach their oyster beds way out in the flats. What an ingenious idea! You can see the orange buoys and tire tracks in all 3 of the images (if you look close enough), and the tire tracks through the sand that leads out from the parking lot.
Cape Cod daily articles on the wonderful Cape Cod places to hike, experience and photograph. A Cape Cod Outdoor Adventure Series.
