I'm late is posting this....but before we turn the corner from summer to Autumn, it's nice to relive our summer vacation.
We had a wonderful week of walking and swimming at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire in August. The swimming was just fantastic! I do not remember the water being so warm. (I've been going to Hampton for many, many, years!) Just a couple of "treasures" to take home this time. My sister found the tortoise-shell limpet (which is a snail) and it looks like a little hat or an eye. It has beautiful markings both on the outside and the underside of the shell. I found the very tiny false angel wings too.
I was able to talk with a couple of women one day down the north end of the beach and found them surf clams, periwinkles, dog whelks, jackknife clams, and a couple of Sea Urchin tests! It was fun to teach them about the many seashells on our coast. I myself am not keeping that many shells these days...it's good to leave them for other creatures to use. But I'll never tire of beach combing and discovering these ocean born treasures.
Nor will I ever tire of Hampton Beach - at least not the natural side of it! It is one beautiful beach, the sand is just perfect and the water is the cleanest in the Northeast. The only downside is that so many other people love it too!
We had a wonderful week of walking and swimming at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire in August. The swimming was just fantastic! I do not remember the water being so warm. (I've been going to Hampton for many, many, years!) Just a couple of "treasures" to take home this time. My sister found the tortoise-shell limpet (which is a snail) and it looks like a little hat or an eye. It has beautiful markings both on the outside and the underside of the shell. I found the very tiny false angel wings too.
I was able to talk with a couple of women one day down the north end of the beach and found them surf clams, periwinkles, dog whelks, jackknife clams, and a couple of Sea Urchin tests! It was fun to teach them about the many seashells on our coast. I myself am not keeping that many shells these days...it's good to leave them for other creatures to use. But I'll never tire of beach combing and discovering these ocean born treasures.
Nor will I ever tire of Hampton Beach - at least not the natural side of it! It is one beautiful beach, the sand is just perfect and the water is the cleanest in the Northeast. The only downside is that so many other people love it too!
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