Tricky Tide

The tide is a tricky thing. I learned growing up to walk "out with the tide" and come back in before the tide turns. As kids we would delight in the "city folk" who would get trapped out on the sand flats because the tide would fill in their path back to the beach. They did know about the tides. Of course, we kids were very malicious in our attitudes towards the summer residents of our town.

When I came off Good Harbor Beach Sunday, the tide had come up from the marsh into the parking lot. I will admit the little Cape Codder in me got evil pleasure from thinking about the owners of the cars wading to get into their vehicles! You can take the kid out of Cape Cod, but you can't take the Cape Cod out of the kid!