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82 JUNE + JULY 2018 AT SEA e North Shore's beaches, rivers, and ocean are beautiful during the day, but have a different kind of magic at night. "It's quite spectacular," says Ozzie Osborn, who owns Essex-based Essex River Basin Adventures (ERBA) with his wife, Sandy. roughout the summer, ERBA hosts a variety of sunset and moonlight kayak tours. e moonlight tours, for instance, run during four consecutive nights each month to coincide with the full moon. Osborn says the tours take pad- dlers through the Essex River Basin to Crane Beach, taking a break along the way for s'mores, hot cocoa, and coffee on the beach. Paddlers will not only enjoy the natural nighttime beauty, but also hear about history and wildlife from guides. Mass Audubon's Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary also hosts family dusk paddles, which explore the Ipswich River with different themes, including summer solstice, river mammals, owls, and discovering wetlands. "It's such a slow-moving river," says Walsh. "It gives people a little bit of information without overwhelming them." Of course there's a lot going on underwater, too, which / I N -D E P T H / Featured in MAGAZINE Beverly Farms, MA Peabody, MA brookwoodstone.com brookwoodlandscaping.com Landscape | Design | Construction | Care PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF ESSEX RIVER BASIN Essex River Basin Adventures