Did you know that there can be a tidal difference of between 8-12 feet from low tide to high tide on Cape Cod Bay?
In the first photo you can see the trucks (circled) out on the flats at low tide near First Encounter Beach while the fishermen are harvesting their oyster beds. The 2nd photo shows where the trucks were but now it is high tide. It always blows my mind to think that trucks can drive so far out there on the flats, while only a few hours later they would be totally under water!
I took a walk to the beach hoping that I might see a “winter bird” at Boat Meadow Creek and I was pleasantly surprised. Here was a male Common Eider swimming about with an occasional dive for food. (Click on blog link for other photo.)
Beautiful bird, don’t you think? Have you seen one this winter yet?
There certainly is a lot going on at Rock Harbor the past couple of months. You can see a huge crane that had to be assembled on the spot as it wouldn’t fit any other way. The only way I could get a decent photo that gave that humongous crane credibility was to take a vertical photo.
I tried googling the Rock Harbor Project online to find a rendering of it, but I couldn’t find one. Does anyone have an information or pictures of what it will look like? It would be fun to learn about what they are doing!
