7:54 p.m.
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I am exhausted this evening, so this will probably be short.
Rebekah and I left at 6:26 this morning. We drove to the Head of the Plains,
where we walked down Landauer's road and climbed up the fence. I found two
shotgun shells in the road. Should we post No Hunting signs? Perhaps it is
just because of the contrast with the town which has grown up at Madaket,
and the thought that the open space is relatively secure,
but I found the views more pleasing than often in the past. I would be
happy to have a house there, if I could afford to have my only economically
productive activity the maintenance of our real estate.
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We drove into Madaket, and I found the Bennett cottage, and drove around it
to show it to Rebekah. Then we drove out to Smith's Point. We drove as far
as we could, and then walked out the jeep path across the dunes. To hold the
sand, snow fences have been secured with 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe driven into the
beach. I told Rebekah how a storm had broken through the peninsula.
The surf was rough, and she was frightened when a wave washed up
over the crest of the beach. I snatched her up so that her feet wouldn't
get wet, but she had a horrified alert
look on her face; she was sure we would be swept away. She begged me to put
her down so that she could run away. We walked over to the Madaket Harbor
side. It is very shallow and warm. We stood in the water and Rebekah tried
to learn to skip a flat stone we had found on the beach. Several times, the
stone did skip. When I asked her if she was ready to leave, she said that
perhaps she would never want to go. We found empty scallop shells, and various
stones. Rebekah looked at another stone, and wondered if it would skip. I tried
to give an intuitive explanation. In the car, we listened to a weather report.
It appears that we will not be much affected by the hurricane.