A 5 beach tour - Another 12 mile walk

Last week we visited 5 towns. This week we walked along 5 beaches.

It was a beautiful but sometimes cold and breezy day. We started In Swampscott walking along King's Beach. The tide was out and the surf was up with beautiful breakers streaming in.

When we reached Nahant Beach we surveyed the damage from the first nor'easter earlier this month. All of the paved path was covered with sand. Some of the sand was not too deep but in other places there is a foot or more. All the dunes have suffered damage too. Some were washed away and all their sand is now across the path. In places the paved path is broken up and beach access points are a mess. And there is an amazing amount of rocks washed up in other areas.

But the good news is we saw lots of cleanup activity going on. Bobcats and bulldozers were out shifting sand and trying to clear the path. However, it will be a long clean up and quite some time before the area looks like it did just a few weeks ago.