Dear reader,
I didn't swim from Coatue Point to Brant Point. Josh was the key to my transportation from the point of Coatue, via jeep through the inside route of Coatue (mosquito rich, with gulls in the ruts out of the wind and the cedars craning) past Coskata and back to Wauwinet and Sconset.
On August 16th, he dropped me at Brant Point Light at 11:30 am, while he and Charlie went out to lunch. Ginger once again did not accompany me on this hike...not because she was an outlaw, but because of the many anticipated groins to be ascended and sea walls to be scaled. Indeed, almost immediately I had to take off my shoes and socks and wade around the wall just after Brant Point light.
At the Jetties Beach, families were arriving to stake out their places for the annual sandcastle contest. Along the beach, the seaweed with slipper shells filled the edge of the beach, and my usual friends, the herring gulls, great black backs and peeps led me and followed me.
Unfortunately, I didn't have the camera with me for this leg of the journey. The sea walls were indeed fascinating....some iron walled, some huge boulders heaped high, some wooden jetty-like constructions. I even saw a coco bag filled with something....but in general the erosion barriers were quite unlike what is being used on the east side of the Island. The northern shore must have suffered as well!
Along the way, I saw my favorite beach sculpture of the trip: a hundred conch shells balanced on top of the posts of a snow fence! These must have been collected and mounted over the years!
Josh and Charlie were waiting for me at 1:30 just past 40th pole beach and we walked through the dunes up to the end of Eel Point Road.
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