The Snug Harbor Sea Horse Story . . .
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.
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