The Sandford Page

Sandford is a village about ten minutes from Yarmouth. It is the proud owner of the smallest drawbridge in the world.
The Lagoon -------- Docking Area -------- Graveyard

Boats returning to shore come through a narrow opening into the docking area. They can then pass through another narrow area over which the smallest drawbridge in the world is located. This leads to a lagoon that is an area where boats can go at high tide. At low tide they will be left sitting on the bottom. It is a great area for doing repairs, painting and cleaning of the lobster boats.

The docking area is the space where working boats return and unload their lobsters and tie up when they are not fishing.

Even these expensive boats fall into complete disrepair in time and are drawn onto the shore. The one pictured may have been completely refurbished or eventually dismantled and removed.

Smallest Drawbridge ----------------------- Lobster Traps

Yarmouth has beautiful sunsets, but if anything Sandford may have some that are more beautiful. Many photographers and artists go to this area and sit and wait to take pictures at the right time. Some of these people use them to make oil paintings.

The two pictures on the left show the smallest drawbridge in the world, one close up and one from a distance. Fisheries buildings appear in silhouette. The picture to the right shows lobster traps waiting to be placed aboard a boat and dropped into the sea, to be filled with delicious lobsters.

Three sunsets in the Sandford area

The sun is just sinking into the sea looking out to the west of Sandford, in the first picture. The middle picture was taken facing the ocean. The trees are growing on the mound of earth following the coast, created by the incoming and outgoing tides. The final shot is a serene sunset sky over a calm sea. The foreground contains weeds and grasses.
Daisies -------- Sea Grass --- Another Sea Grass

When a wooden jetty has weathered for many years the wood will start to rot at the top of the piles. Seeds blowing in the wind can land and find root in these areas. A daisy plant growing out of a pile is beautiful, as is any plant. The second and third pictures show two types of sea grass that grows in abundance on the shores.
Sandford Fishing Centre From The Air

I took this picture from our club Cessna 172. It shows the outer wharfs where many lobster boats tie up. The passage can be seen that leads into the inner, square section where the boats unload their catches. In the upper right corner of the square is the drawbridge over the passage into the lagoon, where the restoration work is done on the boats. This was taken at high tide. The lagoon stretches beyond the roadway in the upper right of the picture. Pipes under the roadway allow the water to enter and leave the larger part of the lagoon.
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