PORTSMOUTH For about 70 years, local residents and out-of-towners have been driving out to the edge of the small peninsula at Gull Cove to drop in a small boat or kayak, lug their fishing …
As if to prove a point, Mother Nature unleashed a whopper of a storm just a few days after the New Shoreham Sea Level Rise Committee’s December meeting. The storm that started late Thursday night did most of its damage locally during the high tide.
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Collectively, the six women spend a considerable amount of their professional and personal time along Rhode Island’s coast, so their answers to the question proved revealing.
Anywhere there is colorful salt marsh. Prudence Island. Matunuck. Napatree Point. Point Judith Pond. Sachuest Point. Emilie Ruecker Wildlife Refuge.
Pam Rubinoff
As Pam Rubinoff, a coastal resilience specialist with Rhode Island Sea Grant and the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island, noted, most if not all of their answers to the question What is your favorite spot along the Rhode Island coast? revolved around the natural word. The only real mention of a human-made feature was the Cliff Walk in Newport.