Eel Pond is a common name along the coast here. This particular Eel Pond is in Woods Hole, MA. This seemingly small village in Falmouth is a busy place, especially in summer. It is where you can take the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard and is also home to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Marine Biology Lab. Eel Pond has a protected marina and boats enter by way of a drawbridge.
This past week, I spent a couple of days at my parents home in Falmouth. It just so happened that my ten-year-old niece was also staying with them. My niece and I rode bikes along a bike path to reach Woods Hole and had lunch at Woods Hole Market & Provisions. You can get freshly made sandwiches there and eat them overlooking the pond. (You can actually see the dining area in this image.) The draw is that things live in this pond and you can drop bits of food and they will come and dine with you. On this day, we dropped bits of our crust and potato chips for a family of ducks. We also saw two huge horseshoe crabs walking (crawling) past us underwater. I’m told that if you drop some sandwich meat, an eel will come and feast off of it.
It looks like a good place to visit!
Terrific composition!
Thank you so much. Cheers
an eel, eh!
That’s the rumor. I gotta say that the horseshoe crabs were a bit freaky.
lol bet you kept that to yourself -have a great day!
I did so my niece wouldn’t think I was scared of the ugly critter. You too. Have a good one.
That lunch sounds like a lot of fun!
You know, it really was. It was a mellow kind of fun just sitting on stools eating lunch and watching the reactions of the various ducks. We probably spent an hour out there.
Eel Pond…yet a new place I learn from you. Nice of you to visit family and sounds like a fun trip😀
Not getting into any water with eels in it! nope nope nope
hmmm…That rules out a lot of water, my friend.
Well…I’ve been in water with stingrays so maybe.
Great image and so pretty!
Thank you. I like this spot very much. Cheers!
Sounds like the two of you had a great time! 😄
Ever since having had to read one of our so called national treasures in school – The Drum (?; Die Blechtrommel) by Guenther Grass – I have a slight terror of eels, so they won’t get any sandwich meat from me! 😂
We did have a lot of fun. It would be cool to see the eel…from a distance and standing on dry land. lol