Snug Harbor Rhode Island Businesses and People
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From the West: Rte. 95 North to exit 92, right onto Rte.2,
1.5 mi. down turn right onto Rte. 78. Go to end, turn left onto
Rte.1 North, in approximately 15 minutes, take Snug Harbor
East Matunuck-Jerusalem exit onto Succotash Road, then bear left
at fork onto Gooseberry Road, go straight to Point Judith Marina's parking lot. We are located on Dock "C"
From the North: Rte. 95 South to Rte.4 South to Rte.1 South,
in approximately 15 minutes, take Snug Harbor-East Matunuck Jerusalem exit (this will be a left exit) onto Succotash Road, then bear left at fork onto Gooseberry Road, go straight to Point Judith Marina's parking lot. We are located on dock "C"
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Summertime in Snug Harbor, Rhode Island
Ever since I can remember when I was a young
boy, my mother and father and younger brother and I would take off
for at least a week to Snug Harbor.
Snug Harbor is an older village of sorts in southern Rhode
Island, tucked away this summer vacation spot is walking distance
to the marina, where fisherman must have come and gone for more
than a century.
Some of my fondest summertime memories are
those of crawling around with my brother and summertime friends
under the old docks of the Snug Harbor Marina.
We would spend hours “under there”, as the tide came in
and out with every return the tide would bring more wonders of the
ocean and unique sea creatures for us to examine and play with.
One summer after playing underneath the old
docks at the Marina, my brother and I and “gang” moved to the
boat landing. The
boat landing was not much, just about twelve feet wide the rough
and old pavement just sort of slowly dipped into the warm Rhode
Island ocean waters.
The Sea-Horse:
My little brother was always adventurous
wading out into the water off the boat landing.
One afternoon while swimming and wading around looking to
catch a fish, a crab, a little lobster, the variety of different
clams found in and around the shores and in the surf of the Rhode
Island coastline. My
brother caught the most curious looking creature, a fish well not
really a fish but not really a shellfish, it was a sea-horse.
Sea Horses are known to be a Caribbean sea-dweller and not
found in the cooler waters of New England.
But if they were to be found anywhere in New England it
would have to be the warm tide pools of southern Rhode Island
right in Snug Harbor.
That afternoon I was back at the house
hanging out and enjoying the summer ocean breeze listening to the
waves and enjoying the sunshine, getting a tan.
My brother and cousins and friends came walking quickly
back to the summer cottage, my brother carrying a large bucket
filled almost to the brim with sea water inside that bucket there
was a sea-horse. None
of us my parents and aunts and uncles included had seen a
sea-horse outside an aquarium like the New England Aquarium in
Boston, Massachusetts. None-the-less
right there in front of us was this curious little creature not
bigger than a dollar bill, in fact it was quite small maybe three
quarters the size or half the size of a dollar bill.
Rhode
Island Oil Spill:
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/qr/qr91.html
Snug
Harbor Fishing Tournaments:
http://www.sportfishermen.com/tournaments/rhode_island/
Nautical Links
http://www.maineharbors.com/ri/rilnk.htm
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