What a difference a month makes.   It’s amazing how much sand the water has already pushed out of the dunes from the large nor’easter that came through the last time we were at Crescent. For that particular storm, we’d really just gotten the coastal flooding effects.    We got four total nor’easters this February/March.    […]

It got up to 50 degrees today, the kind of day that begged for a walk.   Two Lights is my old reliable in the winter- so long as we’ve had any amount of warming (it’s been above freezing, mostly, for the last week), the oceanside paths at least, will be clear.

I had taken this Friday off a few weeks ago (had to work in a few days so I don’t lose them at the end of the year), so this was a planned visit to Crescent Beach.    I lucked out by getting there at high tide with tropical storm Jose offshore. I have never

Thursday was work’s summer outing (squeaked it in by a day), which ended up being a really great day to be at Fort Williams.   Not only was it high tide, but tropical storm Jose is passing by out to sea – too far away to impact our weather very much, but plenty close enough

This was an amazing walk.    It’s a loop through the forest, which was just starting to get fall color, to a beach.   Off that beach is Petit Manan Lighthouse, except it was so foggy, we can only see it intermittently.     But you could hear the foghorn for the entire walk, which