Niantic

It was a sunny but breezy and cool Sunday afternoon when we drive down to Niantic, CT to check out the beaches.

The Big Beach - Niantic Bay Beach

Shoreline RR lift bridge

A Smaller Beach - Hole in the Wall

A short underpass under the RR giave its name

    

Cis snuck into my selfie! ;-)

We ate here - it was excellent!!!!!

Did you know?

Niantic means people of the “point of land on a tidal river” 

Tribal location:

Between the Thames and Connecticut Rivers, mostly at the mouth of the Connecticut River, around Niantic Bay and Niantic River, and in parts of modern East Lyme and Waterford, Connecticut

Language:

Algonquin. Y-dialect similar to the Pequot, Mohegan, Narragansett, and Montauk