This is a story about what was intended to be a fun day on a sea-doo, on the ocean for a day. This story played out at a time of the year when the beach was not busy with swimming and sunbathers. The year was sometime during the middle 1980s, and my guess would be in the month of September because the water temperature of the ocean is very cold in the spring, maybe 50 degrees.
As the story goes, two young men from inland New Hampshire loaded a sea-doo into the back of a Datsun pickup truck and came to Wallis Sands beach. They found the public beach access way onto the south end of Wallis Sands beach near Parson’s Creek and Concord Point. Seeing no sign to warn them of the danger, they drove the truck down onto the beach to make unloading of the sea-doo closer to the water.
The tide was about halfway; which way it was moving was hard to tell unless one is familiar with the ocean or has access to a tide chart or calendar. The day this adventure took place, the tide was on its way in, and with the excitement of the ride on the ocean, the men did not move the truck to higher ground.
I can only imagine the surprise the men experienced when they returned and found the truck in water up to the headlights. What a costly day at the beach.
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