March weather has been oscillating between days with below freezing temps and biting windchill factors to gorgeous 60 degree sunny days. We have ventured out through both extremes. On the cold days there are only a few hearty souls on the beach. On the warm days it can be quite busy. The winter storms have really shifted the sand around. The metal beach access stairway is closed due to four feet of sand being washed away beneath the bottom step.
The dune underneath the stairs has also eroded away.
On the 16th, I saw a large Coast Guard ship just off the jetty entrance working on navigational buoys.
On the 17th I got a glance at a Coast Guard airplane on maneuvers along the river.
Occasionally, you can see commercial airplanes in a holding pattern waiting to land at the Manchester or the Portsmouth airports.
A large flock of sandpipers feeding along the waters edge.
In early March some small gelatinous blobs washed ashore. They looked like something out of an old science fiction horror film. We contacted Susan Pike the science columnist for a NH newspaper. She referred us the Seacoast Science Center for an expert opinion. They identified it as a Seas Gooseberry a type of comb jelly fish.
