Carol and I paddled from Lonnie's Pond over to Pochet Island on Thursday and were surprised to see horseshoe crabs along the shoreline, mating. It was the day after the full moon at a high tide. There's a great chapter entitled "At a Horseshoe Crab Orgy" in William Sargent's classic: Shallow Waters: A Year on Cape Cod's Pleasant Bay. Anyway, here are a few of the pictures that I took. - Tim Counihan (5/9/2020) … [Read more...]
Water, Water Everywhere: Women Water Whisperers
By Betsy Furtney As Orleans continues to walk “the long and winding road” to improved water quality, Orleans Pond Coalition would like to remind readers of five very dedicated women who have worked more than 17 years to improve marine and fresh water quality and achieve healthy ponds. You may already know Carolyn Kennedy, Judy Scanlon, Joanne Figueras, Sandy Bayne and Judith Bruce. But if you haven’t met them yet, they are easy to find at Orleans’ Conservation Commission, Marine and Fresh Water Quality Task Force, Shellfish … [Read more...]
Water, Water Everywhere: Remembering an Earlier Time at Lonnie’s Pond
By Pam Herrick My family, adventurers from Colorado, moved to the shore of Lonnie’s Pond when I was 8. The year was 1941. But the adventure really began a bit later, when I climbed into a rowboat for the fist time, figured out how to make the oars move and set off across Lonnie’s Pond to get the mail at our mailbox on Monument Road. Our driveway and road to the tip of Mayflower Point was a two-lane dirt road. If there was any traffic, it came about three feet from our house. My mother bought a Sharpie sailboat we named … [Read more...]