The small beach at RestHaven is currently hard to reach

On Friday I went to the RestHaven Ruins, which are just outside Charlestown on the Old Hospital Road. If you can get through to the little beach there, there is often very good rarer-quality small-size shell drift washed up there.

However, the whole area has grown up a lot since last year with saplings, thorny acacia bushes and bull nettles, and it is now surprisingly difficult to make your way across the site, even just because of the extremely tough tall grass that grows there.

In the old days there was a flock of goats who lived there, and they made very good paths through the whole area, paths about 1 foot wide.

but for us, when we were trying to cross the area. we walked over a fire ant nest, and I got bitten on my left ankle 20 times. Ouch!

In the end, Nikki and I had to give up and go back to the parking lot by the Cholera gravyard, and then drive from there over to the old tennis courts.

From the tennis counts it was possible, although not super easy, to make your way down to the north end of the little sandy beach.

The shelling was pretty good once you got there, although by no means was it the best I have ever seen it. When it is at its best it can be really mind-blowing in terms of richness and variety.

The worst thing was that when we walked over the Fire Ant nest I got liberally bitten by Fire Ants all around my ankles. i got 20 bites just on my left ankle. They all have yellow/white blisters on them now. Yikes!

Publicado el 20 de abril de 2024 a las 09:49 PM por susanhewitt susanhewitt

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