We loved meeting up with Brian Sullivan, Videographer/Editor/Features Reporter from the Cape Media Center for a hike on the Coles Pond Bog Trail!
Brian says “In our ongoing quest to find a place to get out into nature for a short lunch break hike, the folks at the Dennis Conservation Land Trust were nice enough to offer up the Coles Pond Bog Trail in East Dennis.”
A little info on the trail from our website: The trail head begins within a neighborhood and takes you back along a well-loved trail lined with oaks and shrubs, with some signs to remain on the trail at locations where private property lines begin and where there is no hunting. Follow a ridge within a pitch pine woodland to the beginning of a mystical cedar swamp. That’s right, mystical.
Our stewardship volunteers and staff laid a boardwalk through the wetland to allow you to access this special watery habitat. Catch a glimpse of a mallard pair floating between the trunks of trees whose roots thrive in a submerged environment. As you depart the cedar swamp, continue on the walking trail through this coastal woodland and pass a stonewall, a reminder of the areas’ agricultural past, placed here to separate one field from another.
Listen for cardinals and tufted titmouse, and watch them do their acrobatic moves to find their lunch in the high tree limbs above. To round the path, it might take you 20 minutes, and if you linger, and find exploring the pathways enticing, you may find you have spent a good hour feeling quite removed from the busyness of Sea Street Beach or not too distant Route 6A.
