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There are a variety of things one can do on the beach at Bavon. One can sit and sip a favorite beverage, or splash about in the surf as the tide goes in or goes out, walk around and visit the handful of neighbors who are sitting on the beach, or walk the beach. It'll take about an hour or more to go in either direction as far as you can go. If you walk north, you will see by the beautiful homes on Chesapeake Shores. If you walk south, you pass the dunes that hide most of the Bavon Beach cottages. Then you will round Grassy Point, walk on beach and grasslants until within sight of the lighthouse, and continue along the wildlife preserve to the end of land. From the point you can see the Island, and the lighthouse beyond. At one time, the lighthouse could be reached by land, but many years ago storms in the Bay separated New Point from it's lighthouse. The lighhouse has been out of operation for several years.
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Sea grass on Bavon dunes.
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Click on any picture to see larger version. Click <BACK> to return
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Above view of Bavon Beach looking south from the top of our dunes towards Grassy Point. Our spot of Bavon Beach. And water side view of beach to Grassy Point.
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Easter Morning .. Sun reflected on beach.
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Above scenes at Grassy Point. Once there were seven pines on Grassy Point. Some of the stumps are in the water. Birds rest on some fallen logs. All that stands is the skeleton of the last pine. Another barren pine.
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Views of the beach from Grassy Point across the mixed beach and grass flats. Bush with roots exposed by recent storms. Beach behind grassflats from G south fromGrassy Point. The Grass flats. The beach approaching the point.
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Views approaching the point. Sand spit. Sand spit with birds. looking across to the New Point Comfort lighthouse. The lighthouse is visible on the horizon on larger version.
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Views of the lighthouse from a distance away, from the closest point, and showing the island between the point and the lighthouse, on the horizon.
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Us on the beach. First is me walking, then, my feet in the icy water, and the last shot is Steve sitting on the beach.
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