Clinton Green to end of Pratt Rd ( and return)

Haven't been out here in a while....it was a  45 mile drive today. Didn't realize it was going to be in the 90s today or else I would have started earlier. I decided at the last minute to see how far I could get on side roads and skip the way I had planned-Rte 1 and all its crapiness.

Parked at the Clinton Green which is on a quiet stretch of the Post Road and pretty small and quiet-very nice. A Civil War monument soldier stands guard over this patch of green.

We walked down to the town beach where I last walked on this trek, a nice in and out. The road is lined with old houses and few others in between. The beach is reached by a small bridge going over a salt creek. A cannonade was placed here.

After a short stretch on Rte 1 I noticed what a nice town this is, the nicest thing is that there ain't alot here but antique shops and historical buildings and historical stuff like plaques, but the very nicest thing is all the benches and places all over  to rest, they are all over and we saw about 3 gazebos for shade too.

We followed side roads and came across this bell, the date of which was 1870.

Not knowing how far this Pratt Rd would take me I keep walking and was pleasantly surprised that the road kept going until a dead end at a salt marsh,the Hammonasett River. Like the Thames and Connecticut Rivers, I will take this as part of the hike and give up my purist thinking against actually walking over water.

On the turn around stopped at small veggie stand and got some beans onions Yukon golds a cuke and some baby pumpkins, it will make a nice soup. This little road was pretty cool, it was on a long point surrounded  by water, to the south was the sound and a ship yard full of yachts and to the north was a narrow waterway with woods on the other side. The houses showed great variety, some looked like regal estates and others looked like the Jedd Clampants Hillbilly house in the hills.

It was getting pretty hot on the way back for the dog so we stopped frequently to lay in the cool grass and drink water and enjoy shade. she did good.  Our lunch stop was at the intersection of Commerce and Post road at a bunch of benches.

 

It was a slow walk back; we walked back on the north side of the road and checked out the Congregational Church, the old school and these strange things


This was first trip using GPS

4.97 miles

Time 2:10:19

Travel miles 45

Gas $3.88/gal