The Bridge at Otter Cove

Coming up on your right is the Fabbri picnic area, with a painted crosswalk over to a plaque, where the Navy listened to Europe in the First World War. Boone has the rest once we're across the cove. Then three stone arches will carry you across Otter Cove. This is the only solid masonry bridge on the park's motor roads, because the builders feared concrete would fail in salt water. It was also meant to do something it has never done. It was designed with slots for boards that would hold back the tide and make a bathing pool in the cove. The boards were never installed. Off to your right will be the village of Otter Creek, a fishing place since the early eighteen hundreds and now completely surrounded by the park. For some of the people there, this causeway blocks their boats. About a mile and a half past the cove, while Boone's talking, watch for a pull-off on your right. A wooden stairway across the road goes down to Little Hunters Beach, secluded and all cobble.