How many places can there be in Westport for a tepee made from a tree and branches?
Plenty.
Readers’ guesses for last week’s Photo Challenge were all over the, um, park. The most popular were Winslow, the Wadsworth Arboretum, Earthplace and the Leonard Schine Preserve.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
The correct answer was: the Mahackeno Outdoor Center, at the Westport Weston Family YMCA. Only Johanna Keyser Rossi and Russell Gontar knew the (apparently somewhat secret) spot.
Click here to see Susan Garment’s photo. And then realize how cool it is that so many other wooded spots could also qualify.
This week’s Photo Challenge is below. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments.”
(Photo/Dan Woog)
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mansion clam house
The commercial oyster operation in the Sherwood Mill Pond (residential surrounds the pond).
Sherwood mill pond
The clamming biz on Mill Pind
Looks like something Norm Bloom would dream up… Oyster Operation in Mill pond.
Mill Pond
Mill pond
Correct – it is the commercial oyster farming operation at Sherwood Mill Pond.
oyster operation in the Sherwood Mill Pond
It’s good to see as oysters clean the water like nothing else. Mill pond has been aqua culture for generations, a classic New England use at its finest.
There was a twenty – twenty five year stretch of zero aqua culture on the pond until someone realized the tax benefits of aqua culture farming.
More importantly the Mill Pond is true treasure for the town. Swans, herons, egrets, blue crabs and many more are there safe in the salt marsh. Sadly over the last fifty years there has been a tremendous influx of sand and the mill pond is much shallower than it was in the 50s. Many also don’t know that you can go from the mill pond to Burying Hill beach by following the salt marsh.