Salt Pond LbNA #22712 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | May 21, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Eastham |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Comet & Luna
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| Found by: | heartrocks |
| Last found: | Mar 17, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaaaam |
| Last edited: | May 21, 2006 |
Salt Pond
********CHECKED ON THIS ONE, BUT IT IS MISSING, WILL REPLACE SOON*****************************
Eastham, MA. Starting at the National Seashore Visitor’s Center. Time to walk is about 25 minutes, and this is an easy walk. Bring insect repellant in warm weather. From appearances, this trail is under water in places during moon high tides.
********The stamp was found broken. We took it, and will replace shortly. Hopefully, by May 1.********Please continue to log in with your stamps. Thanks.
This is our second box in Eastham. The other is “Coast Guard Cedars” (which has my best hand-carved stamp), and if you are fit, you can continue East after finding the Salt Pond box and pick up the trail to Doane Rock and then on to Coast Guard beach. Or, make a 3/4 mile drive in between the two.
From the East end of the Visitor’s Center, pass downhill through the amphitheatre, to the Nauset Marsh trail. You can pick up a guide trail-side, but you won’t need it. You’ll go downhill, and reach the Salt Pond. It used to be a freshwater kettle pond. Bear left at the shore.
Follow along the inlet, and cross the wooden bridge. The path then veers into the woods, up terraced steps. You’ll go by occasional split-rail fences and reach an overlook, which is almost as good as that from Coast Guard. Continue down the trail, and you will reach a marker which indicates, of all things, the former existence of a golf course. From this marker, backpace 15 steps on the trail, and you will see three cedars fairly close on your right. Behind the base of the middle tree is the box, under salt hay. Hopefully it is above high tide. You might want to check a Nauset tide chart
********CHECKED ON THIS ONE, BUT IT IS MISSING, WILL REPLACE SOON*****************************
Eastham, MA. Starting at the National Seashore Visitor’s Center. Time to walk is about 25 minutes, and this is an easy walk. Bring insect repellant in warm weather. From appearances, this trail is under water in places during moon high tides.
********The stamp was found broken. We took it, and will replace shortly. Hopefully, by May 1.********Please continue to log in with your stamps. Thanks.
This is our second box in Eastham. The other is “Coast Guard Cedars” (which has my best hand-carved stamp), and if you are fit, you can continue East after finding the Salt Pond box and pick up the trail to Doane Rock and then on to Coast Guard beach. Or, make a 3/4 mile drive in between the two.
From the East end of the Visitor’s Center, pass downhill through the amphitheatre, to the Nauset Marsh trail. You can pick up a guide trail-side, but you won’t need it. You’ll go downhill, and reach the Salt Pond. It used to be a freshwater kettle pond. Bear left at the shore.
Follow along the inlet, and cross the wooden bridge. The path then veers into the woods, up terraced steps. You’ll go by occasional split-rail fences and reach an overlook, which is almost as good as that from Coast Guard. Continue down the trail, and you will reach a marker which indicates, of all things, the former existence of a golf course. From this marker, backpace 15 steps on the trail, and you will see three cedars fairly close on your right. Behind the base of the middle tree is the box, under salt hay. Hopefully it is above high tide. You might want to check a Nauset tide chart