POCASSET RIVER AND THE WEST END OF THE CAPE COD CANAL

The pickup point for this trip would be the town marina at the Singing Bridge in beautiful downtown Pocasset. The town dock is convenient for such a starting point. Across from the marina is Barlow's Marina with the many boats that are in slips and at floating docks. Going down the river toward the Bay, there are many beautiful homes with their boats tied to their own docks. Passing through the jetty, we are in Buzzards Bay with Wings Neck to our left and Toby Island, Monument Beach harbor and Mashnee Island to our right.

Heading NW to run by Mashnee Island, we come to the large red buoy, #10, which marks the edge of the Cape Cod Canal. One can easily see the roiling water caused by the canal current at any time, even that of slack current. Going straight across would take us up to Onset where, again, there are many boats and many beautiful homes. If, instead, we turned right at #10 buoy, we would head up into the canal and would have the opportunity to visit the Taylor Point Marina or go past Gray Gables where President Grover Cleveland summered and head up to the view the Railroad Bridge and the Bourne Bridge.

Turning around at the bridges and depending on the wind and current in the canal, we could head out to Buzzards Bay along the Hog Island Channel and when we came to the end of the channel, we would turn left, head over to Wings Neck and the Wings Neck Lighthouse and then turn left again to run parallel to Wings Neck and back to the Pocasset River.