Congratulations! Get Up & Go! Facebook Photo Contest

"For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea."
- e.e. cummings

Ah, the beach. A place of sea, sun and sand. An outdoor setting where time slows and love blossoms. And for families with young children, the perfect day-trip destination. That’s something Lynnfield Commons resident Wendy Dixon—and contest winner—can relate to. Wendy shared heartwarming photos of her recent visit to Crane Beach in Ipswich with her children.

Is there anything cuter than a little boy frolicking at the beach? Well, yes. A little boy and his big sister splashing in the surf! 

Cool Get Up & Go! fact:  The Dixon clan visited a beach with history. Crane Beach sits on the Crane Estate, which in addition to a four-mile long beach and five miles of walking trains amid the coastal dunes, is home to the largest pitch pine forest on the North Shore, is among the world’s most important piping plover bird sanctuaries and is the site where the Agawam Native American tribe once lived. The tribe sold the land to the Governor of Massachusetts in 1637 and it was eventually sold to Richard T. Crane, son of a wealthy businessman. His son, Richard T. Crane, donated the beach in 1945.