Delmarva Back Roads

Pickering Beach has one of the nicest beaches we’ve seen so far along the Delaware Bayshore Byway. I had read that the beach is too full of shells and stones to go in the water. But when we visited, the beach was clean, with few pebbles or shells and none of the mud at some other bayshore beaches. The beach at low tide was wide and a really pleasant walk. Pickering Beach is also one of Delaware’s horseshoe crab sanctuaries. Horseshoe crabs come ashore here to spawn every May and June, and volunteers come to flip  the ones that have been turned upside down by the waves. Wayfinding sign on horseshoe crabs at Pickering Beach The community of Pickering Beach is more a hamlet than a town, just a strip of beachfront homes. I wonder how long it will be here. Like other Delaware bayfront communities, the beach vanishes at high tide. But here, unlike some other bayfront communities, many of the homes are very close to the high tide mark, so they can obviously be flooded in storms. We saw ...