Day 46 - a Year by the Sea

Today, I went to the beach after the big storm. I didn’t expect to find the hull of a pirate ship driven up onto the sands of Revere Beach but there really wasn’t much to see. It was dead low tide and it was just the gulls and me. So I drove over to Short Beach which connects two drumlins, one in Revere and one in Winthrop. Short Beach is actually a barrier beach protecting Belle Isle Marsh and before modern man added a sea wall, it must have been regularly breached by the stormy Atlantic. I hoped to find something more interesting. There were just more gulls and broken shells. Then I realized that something else altogether had been washed up. It was this enormous boulder covered with barnicles glowing red in the afternoon sun. No the ocean didn’t really do this. It was the glacier that carved out the Boston Basin and all the marshes, drumlins and creeks nearby. Although there was some volcanic activity a very long time, Boston’s history is really all about what the glacier left to us when it retreated. The rock and the storm washed blue sky add up to quite a sight.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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