Cushing Island
Casco Bay, Maine · 10,000 years
Today · Present-day island

Little Beach

The sheltered west-shore pocket beach

[C]Confirmed43.64350° N, 70.20710° W
In layers06 · The Island Today

No photograph of this place is held in the archive. Nothing is shown here rather than an approximation.

Historical significance

A short, sheltered beach on the west shore between the Civilian Dock and Crab Point. Its calm water is a function of position: it sits inside the lee of the point, out of the harbour chop that works the exposed southwest shore.

On the ground
  • Crab Point closes the view to the north; Lobster Cove lies immediately beyond it.
  • Cobble gives way to sand only in the middle of the beach — the pocket is small and tidally sensitive.
Open research questions
    Where to walk next
    Lobster Cove & Crab Point
    10 m · ~1 min
    Dixie Bull investigation zone
    Civilian Dock
    290 m · ~4 min
    The west-shore landing for the island community
    Big Beach
    520 m · ~7 min
    The long southwest strand

    Distances are straight-line from recorded coordinates. Island roads curve, so allow more time than the estimate.

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