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I have made many a night trip down to the Powderpoint bridge over the past 10+ years, and quite a few of those were solitary journies.
You tend to develope a "6th semse" of your surroundings, probably hightened by your focus on the fishing. I have had quite a few times where I was alone fishing the overnight tide and either "sensed" or heard the coyote running /walking behind me on the bridge. I was momentarily frazzled because of the potential problems these animals can create, but they never do create any problems. They pass me as they would pass a tree or a rock and continue on their way either to hunt in the dunes or return to their dens on the "mainland". There is something primordial about being alone and hearing a coyote howl out on Duxbury beach on a calm moonlit night.
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