Rhode Island Waterfront

I live in a place called Wild Goose Point. It is one of several points that extend out into Narragansett Bay, just south of Wickford, and is one of the lesser known points. Not as grand as Poplar Point, nor as well known as Lone Tree Point, but I like to think of it as an up and comer.

It is a little beach community that has grown over the past 60 years or so into a year round neighborhood, filled with a mixed bag of people and characters, old and young, newcomers and those who have lived here for over 60 years.

Besides having access to the ocean, which drew me here, we have some of the tallest, old trees I have ever seen. They fill in and block the view of the ocean in the summer months but the sound of the leaves on hundreds of trees rustling on summer evenings is a fair trade. The wild geese fly right over us in a crisscross pattern and for every flap of their wings they make a honking sound.

One of the greatest, natural walking trails around, to do the mile and a quarter loop brings you right along Narragansett Bay with a view of the bridges, Jamestown and Rome Point. We have several beaches including some on Bissell Cove, which is the best place for kayaking, or paddling, as we like to call it. The loop also brings you around one of the few remaining white cedar swamps left in southern Rhode Island. When was the last time you saw a firefly? We still have them here. And it is always a great day in the season the first time we see the turtles sunning on the fallen log in the swamp. The same place every year.

Gus likes to climb the rocks, Mia likes to look for crabs, and Lina is especially good at finding sea ice. She has named one of our beaches 'Sea Ice Beach'. She got to name it because she discovered it.