August 9, 2008
Phyllis and Josh dropped me off at the Galls (again without Ginger) for my walk to the tip of Coatue. This seemed like the most remote part of my trek...at other points of the walk I occasionally saw people at their homes, or folks in vehicles near Great Point. During this part of the walk, the people I saw had come ashore from boats with their families to swim and sunbathe. This is the only time I saw a group of over a dozen oystercatchers. Usually I see a pair or perhaps four.
The walking was easier with pebbles and eelgrass to walk on. This was the beginning of my seeing the shiny baubles of shells from Nantucket Sound.
Coatue is wild and I haven't spent time on its north shore. It is a gull rookery and the black backs and herring gulls screeched as I walked by. I was happy not to be inland with the mosquitoes, which are fierce out this way...as is the poison ivy. Many years ago, the sight of prickly pear cactus blooming on Coatue was part of my falling in love with Nantucket. And the wild desert poppies also live on Coatue.
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