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Fenwick Grove LbNA #53478

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:May 11, 2010
Location: Fenwick Grove
City:Old Saybrook
County:Middlesex
State:Connecticut
Boxes:4
Planted by:Fenwick Grove
Found by: Little Fawn
Last found:Oct 12, 2015
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Oct 13, 2015
Fenwick Grove

Placed by: Lynde Point Land Trust
Placement date: May 14, 2010
State: Connecticut
County: Middlesex
Nearest city: Old Saybrook
Number of boxes: 4

Clues

These boxes are located in the Fenwick Grove behind the Fenwick Golf Course Office on Maple Ave. (Rte. 154). It represents the love and appreciation of the Long Island Sound and its wildlife.

Allow 1-1½ hours for relatively easy hiking. Bring your own color ink and notebook. There is one logbook in the last box. Please stamp a page with your personal stamp and write a note if you like. Feel free to take one of the shore bird stickers found in that box.

Directions:
Follow Route 154 (Main Street) through Old Saybrook. Continue on Rt. 154 toward Saybrook Point. Take a right at the stop sign (Saybrook Point Inn will be on your left), and continue on Rt. 154 across the causeway. Take the first right after the causeway at the Fenwick Golf Course registration center. Drive to the rear of the parking lot where you will see a sign for Fenwick Grove. There are three designated parking spaces for the Grove.


Clues:
Enter the Grove through the gate on the right. Follow the path, keeping sight of the water on your right. You will begin to see Lynde Point Land Trust trail markers on trees. Continue past the large boulder on your left that is shaped like a pyramid. Stop and look to your right. Check to see if there is an osprey nesting on the osprey platform by the water. Turn left where you notice fallen logs. Keeping the water to your back, go a little way. Stop at the fallen logs on your left. Put your back to the osprey platform and look under the logs. Here you will find box #1 with little birds that scurry along the shoreline.

Return to the main path and continue until you come to a post with a LPLT sign. Go the right until you come to a bench that overlooks South Cove. Enjoy the view from the bench. See how many shore birds you can identify. Leaving the bench, continue along the path keeping the cove on your right. Continue on the path until you get to another path on the left. Follow that path until you come to a triple-trunk tree on your left. Look inside the trunk of the tree for box #2, and you will find someone who might pinch you when you are swimming.

Go back to the path you were on and continue past the second bench. Keeping that bench to your back, continue along the path. Follow the trail markers on the trees. You will pass a sassafras tree on your left that is next to a tree with a Land Trust (LPLT) sign on it. Across the path on your right you will see a very large boulder that appears to have a tree growing out of it. (Unfortunately, this tree broke following Irene, but part of it is still behind the boulder.) This is where you will find box #3 and a large scavenger we see flying over the Sound, who tries to steal fish from the ospreys.

Go back to the trail and keep on the path until you see the exit gate in the distance. You will come to twin large rocks on your left. Turn here. You will see a trail marker on a tree to your right. A short distance from there you will see a dead log on your left. Look under the log for box # 4 and a bird that stands still in the water. This is the final box. Please stamp and write in the “Fenwick Grove” notebook. Help yourself to one of the stickers.

Return to the main path and head toward the exit gate and the parking lot. We hope you enjoyed your walk through the Grove.