Outing Day

Hike-Ku for Halibut Point

Traffic, Dogs, People
Too many but still we walk
Waves, Rock, Silence. . . .aaaah

Hike-Ku for Agassiz Rocks

Poor babies. The ice
has left you waiting on edge
fifteen thousand years

Two more hikes out of the sixty hikes book. Check. Done. We were out on Cape Ann, at a couple of trustee's properties, one surprising and one that we have visited before. The surprising one was the Agassiz Rocks, short trail, up, down, up and over and then you're on top of the granite ridge with glacial erratics, big ones sitting there. The property is named for Louis Agassiz the guy who promoted the contemporary theory of glaciation and continental ice sheets, based on the kind of evidence he saw in his wanderings around the Alps and in New England. There were "little" rocks on the ledge and a "big" rock, tucked at the bottom of a swamp, almost cliff sized, but not anchored to anything local. I believe this particular rock is a guest from the Whites. Like a lot of others in the neighborhood. Hard to think of continental ice sheets on a sunny blue skies September day, though.

Since the Agassiz Rock hike was so short, we drove up to Halibut Point in Rockport. I've been there a number of times before, to hang out by the water on days when the beach wasn't an option. And it's lovely, but unlike other days when it's been us and the seagulls, the parking lot was packed, any number of European tourists were wandering around and we encountered a wedding rehearsal on the scenic vista lookout point. Hummanity strikes again and it brought it's cell phones with it. We did make it down to the rocks where we sheltered from the sun in the shade of big granite upright and watched the waves and the boats go by. A perfect end of summer outing before school and work begin in earnest this week .