In early December 2011, I was at Fort Sewall shooting Marblehead Light and the harbor when I walked around to the North side with views of Gerry Island. I spotted two people making their way across Little Harbor via the land bridge that connects the island to land at low tide. As the tide had come in at this point, the land bridge seemed to have disappeared and the people seemed to be walking on water.
It’s such a unique site seen from afar but, in the Summer, this is a fairly regular occurrence as most people who make their way out to Gerry or Brown’s Island invariably will find that the tide has risen more than expected in the few hours spent there. Hopefully, warm days are near and this will be a familiar site once again in Little Harbor.