The Canal
One of my favorite places in the summertime is the Cape Cod Canal. While Cape Cod is a huge tourist destination, I find that not as many people know about the Canal that separates the Cape from the main land. It’s a huge canal that goes for 17.5 miles and allows tons of private and commercial boats to continue down the East Coast rather than have to navigate to the tip of Massachusetts. There’s about 1,000 acres around the canal that have a beautiful bicycle trail on both sides, a beach at the ocean, a campground, hiking trails and a pier for fishing.
We fell in love with it a few years ago and usually visit the Canal and Plymouth in the same day as they are just a short drive away from each other.
Yesterday we decided to take the day off and just go. While Earl spend the day fishing, the kids and I sat under a tree in the shade and spent the day watching him fish, the beautiful wildlife everywhere and the boats going by.
We watched the minks play in the rocks almost all day looking for food. I took several pictures of them but you really can’t see them as they just blend in with the rocks. One of them worked to get an eel off the rocks that a fisherman had left behind. When it finally got it loose it crossed the bicycle trail behind us to a chorus of these shrieks and trills that are hard to describe. They clearly had a nest over there and a lot of excited babies. We watched two of them go back and forth most of the day. They are really so cute to watch. The first time I saw one I didn’t know what they were and I was scanning the lost ads to see if someone had lost a ferret! They look just like them! I know now that they live at the canal and they are one of my favorite things to watch when we go.While I wasn’t able to personally get any good pictures of them, I found this one for you on a video of them on YouTube. The ones that I’ve seen are varying shades of brown.
We also saw another animal friend, the gray seal. He was swimming down the canal with a striped bass in his mouth looking for a place that he could come to shore and eat his catch.
The herons that you see above came out to catch their evening dinner as the sun started to set over the trees. It really was the perfect day. I realized at the end of the day that I had spent eight hours just sitting there watching everything go on around me. It was the most relaxing day I’ve had in quite some time and it went by so fast! I couldn’t believe the time. The only reason that we left was that a group of mosquitoes decided we were the best dinner for the evening. We were there long enough to see the fireflies all along the river.
I hope you have a magickal day!
Much Love and Many Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong