Sandy Point State Reservation
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Sandy Point State Reservation is located in Ipswich, Massachusetts, at the southern tip of Plum Island, Massachusetts.
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Views within the park
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Driftwood shelter on the beach
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Bar Head in the park at low tide. The rocks are more clearly visible and the driftwood is high on the beach.
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Entrance sign
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Wheelchair-accessible pavilion at Sandy Point
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The pavilion looking toward the parking lot
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The bay from the dunes
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Spar buoy marking the southernmost tip of Sandy Point. Seen here at high tide, it is fixed to a pile of rocks.
Ecology
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Beach rose in the park
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Seagulls in the park. This magnification shows the coast of Cape Ann across Ipswich Bay.
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Common Gull, high tide
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Sign cautioning the public about the seals
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Massive sand dumps in 2011 on the north in an effort to preserve real estate soon washed south to Bar Head Rocks shown here covered inches deep. The troughs around the rocks indicate the depth of the build-up. In its native state this is not a beach. Castle Hill, Ipswich, shown across Ipswich Bay to the left.
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Bar Head Rocks in their native state before the dumping of 2011. View is toward Emerson Rocks on the federal reservation to the north, with a strip of beach between.
Landscapes seen from the reservation
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Ipswich Bay from the park
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Sailboat beating upwind into the channel at Sandy Point
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Castle Hill at low tide
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Plum Island Sound, Great or Jeffrey's Neck, Ipswich
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Plum Island Sound, Little Neck, Ipswich
The reservation seen from outside
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Sandy point, the channel, South Breaker marker, from the beach between Jeffrey's and Little Necks
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Sandy Point and Bar head, from the beach between Jeffrey's and Little Necks