Drove down to Katama Bay to see the cut through the 5 mile long bar connecting Martha's Vineyard south beach to Chappaquidick.   It has been dry sand, perhaps 100 yards wide, for 30+ years - supposedly Ted Kennedy was going to drive across it that night in 1969, except he was in a Dodge Valiant or something, which is not exactly an over-sand vehicle, and anyway he probably made up that story, too. 

 

But a storm two years ago breached it, and the opening (200 yards wide) has let fresh (salt) water into Katama Bay and played hell with the currents the little Edgartown three car ferry has to navigate.   The opening is gradually moving towards the base of Chappy and will close up in another two or three years. 

 

At the side of the road, near the grass landing strip with the tourist biplanes  (you have never flown until you have had the guy one mile up over Edgartown Harbor and then ... cut the engine, and let the nose go over, absolute silence except the rushing wind) and the usual grizzled island pick up truck pulls out in front of me.

 

Bumper sticker:  "If a husband speaks in the forest, and there is no wife around ... is he still wrong?"   c