Camping in Hingham

[dancerjodi]

We're going camping this weekend at http://www.state.ma.us/dem/parks/womp.htm and I'm wondering if any South Shore type folks know of beaches nearby to this park.

The campground doesn't have a place to swim, and since I won't be bringing a mountain bike I fear that I may get hiked-out and be looking for something to do involving moving around in water :)

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[coffeekitty.livejournal.com]

that's where i used to live.
ghastly place, in my opinion.

you *can* swim in the ocean; there's a public beach in town, but the water tends to be kind of nasty.

Hingham

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"that's where i used to live.
ghastly place, in my opinion."

That's the impression I've gotten from people :/

"you *can* swim in the ocean; there's a public beach in town, but the water tends to be kind of nasty."

OK then, I guess this will be the first camping trip where I don't go swimming then . . .

Thanks for the info!

Re: Hingham

[coffeekitty.livejournal.com]

i used to swim there, and that, together with falling in the charles river a few times, has made my immune system the blitzkrieg of terror that germs fear today *grin*

Re: Hingham

[dancer.livejournal.com]

"i used to swim there, and that, together with falling in the charles river a few times, has made my immune system the blitzkrieg of terror that germs fear today *grin*"

I used to work with kids, and my parents swam in the Charles all of the time (back then, everybody in the neighborhood did) . . . perhaps that accounts for *my* uber immune system? :)

Ah well, here's hoping the hiking trails are nice and that they have firepits (I've heard some MA state parks on the shore don't allow them, like the ones on the cape)