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...heard his body strike the boulders more than a hundred feet below, or saw it being swept from the rocks by the current and sent cascading down the gorge toward the lake, a mile away, where the next day a fisherman spotted it floating face down twenty yards from shore...
Good Harbor Beach and Bass Rocks, Gloucester. Your average, populated North Shore beach. Go up route 128 to Gloucester and ask directions--the roadwork in this town is fairly complicated. Don't expect too much--despite the beautiful beach and rocky shores nearby, there is a lot of trash and teenage waste. Free, if you can park...
...Ipswich land was once owned by the family which brought you America Standard toilets and seats, and the Castle overlooking the beach (on Castle Hill) was their home. Castle Hill is now open to the public, and it is often used for weddings. Crane Beach is probably the North Shore's most popular beach, and all of the property is owned and maintained by the Trustees of Reservations...
Scusset Beach and Reservation. This is a state park, and one of the easiest beaches to commute to. It's about an hour's ride from Boston down route 3. which is about as far as the aforementioned North Shore beaches. Scusset beach is next to a campground, too, and the site is ideal for overnight affairs. The camping fee is $5 per couple, but the camping lot is nothing more pleasing than a shrubby parking lot. Nice view of an electric power plant across the Cape Cod Canal, though...
Current power is being studied under a DOE grant by Aerovironment Inc., a small firm in Pasadena, Calif. It is considering sinking large electricity-producing turbines off the Florida coast, with rotating "windmills" turned by the Gulf Stream and connected to generators that pump power to shore by submarine cable...