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This is a photo of Charles Island that I took the other day while walking on the beach.  fun facts about charles island....they say that blackbeard buried treasure there but never been any found.  also they say it was an indian summer island home.  don't know how true they are but it is fun to imagine.

***back to stamping tomorrow with spotlighting technique***

Saturday in the park....

Remember that song from the group Chicago.  I always like that song so here are a few

photos of us taking a walk on the boardwalk at Silver Sands beach.

  Oh, well not the park but still outdoors in the fresh air.  this past year we had a couple of storms that

unfortunately ripped out part of our boardwalk at the beach but it is being fixed. check out me sitting on the bench....swinging my feet in the wind.  that's right I'm so short my feet don't touch the sand!  the seagulls are having a nice swim in the cold water.  oh yeah, did I mention that these photos were taken last week when my husband and I took our first walk on the boardwalk.  Isn't my hubby a cutey with his shades.  lol! 

I do like to see all the sand castles that the kids make and here is one of the first for this year.  enjoy! 

Annual walk on boardwalk

It's the middle of May and we finally made it to our local beach to walk on the boardwalk for the first time this year.  There was a lot of damage after the hurricane last August in fact the rock sculptures that were there last year are now gone.  That's a shame because as you can see here they were great especially the pirate ship.  But we still enjoyed our walk yesterday on the boardwalk and on the beach, it was a perfect afternoon for it. 

Silver Sands Park boardwalk

On thursday afternoon my husband and I took a walk on the boardwalk here in town.  It started out overcast but by the time we got back to the car it was hot and we needed a drink of water.  On the side of the boardwalk there were lots of these plants with berries and very fragrant white flowers.  Unexpected but very nice greenery in fact some of them had purple flowers.  Along the way on the seashore there were rock formations like this one.  I'm inclined to think this is how a budding young artist is formed.   

See me in front of a fun rock formation of a pirate ship!  Isn't it great.  Very creative.  We have lived in this town for years and never knew this was here.  It was a fun afternoon of discovery.

Silver Sands Park boardwalk - not as long as thought

I found information on Silver Sands State Park by googling it and guess what it isn't as long as we thought....LOL!  just seemed it for us out of shape old folgies.  So we walked 1 1/2 miles which is a good stretch.  Guess I should get my facts straight before posting from now on. 
Silver Sands State Park features a boardwalk with 1/10th mile markers extending west 3/4 miles, connecting the State park to the City of Milford's Walnut Beach Park. The site includes an offshore island connected to the mainland by a sand and gravel bar (tombolo) that is submerged at high tide. Accessing the tombolo is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS and should be avoided. Access to the island is prohibited May 1 through August 31 to protect heron and egret rookeries.  Below is a photo we took of Charles Island......hmmmmm should we go dig for treasure, mateys!

Silver Sands State Park is a Connecticut State park in Milford, Connecticut, USA which offers facilities for swimming in the Long Island Sound, picnicking, trails, boardwalks and opportunities for bird-watching. It includes the 14-acre (57,000 m2) bird sanctuary of Charles Island, which is rumored to be the site of Captain Kidd's buried treasure. Silver Sands is adjacent to the city-owned park, Walnut Beach.

An afternoon walking at the beach

 First if you know me, you know I'm basically a lazy person and when it comes to exercise ..... well let's just say that's not me BUT yesterday afternoon my husband and I decided to take a walk on the boardwalk.  This boardwalk is at Silver Sands park and is about 2 miles one way and if you want to get back to your car you have to turn around and walk back so that is 4 miles....approximately.  Needless to say it was a hike for these two old geezers ....meaning me and hubby.  It took us a good hour and a half to walk it including walking down to the water and resting on bench.  Only problem with resting on bench is then I don't want to get up and move!  He had to pull me off that bench!  lol!  This boardwalk is over a swamp or as my husband says it is more politically correct to say wetlands on the right and the beach on the left so depending which side you decide to look you see "swamp" or kids playing in the water.  If you read my blog you know that back in June myself and a couple of friends walked across a boardwalk in Poughkeepsie, NY.(http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/2011/06/afternoon-walk.html)  That boardwalk was nice but completely different from this one in my town.  Both have their own features only good thing about Silver Sands is it is right here in town so a lot easier for me to walk it whenever I want.  I'll post more photos soon.