How to Find & Access Tidewatch
Finding Tidewatch
New Seabury is a large planned community within Mashpee, MA at its southernmost tip. Enter 94 Shore Drive West into your GPS. It will bring you to the entrance of New Seabury and then follow signs to the Club at New Seabury.
When you can see the Club, bear left and the street ends at locked gates, and on the left find our parking lot. Park anywhere and proceed to the building down the sloped driveway to the front entrance. Park and unload, but move your car to a spot as soon as possible.
In the a kitchen island drawer you’ll find parking permits for two or more cars. Put them on the dashboard of cars you use, as parking is strictly monitored. During the summer there is even a guard, a light-hearted happy fellow. Ask your guests to tell him they are visiting unit #4108.
Handicapped Access
There’s a handicapped parking spot near the main entrance. Being on the water means we’re a bit of a walk to the other end of the complex. The owner’s wife has limited mobility so he drops her off at the entrance and parks. He then walks to the unit and drives back her electric mobility cart (there are no steps) and hands it off to her.
With the cart she can access all the paths in the inner courtyard, sitting areas, etc. and drive right into the apartment and park and plug in the cart. Feel free to use it and it’s pretty cool to take it for a ride down to drop off the garbage. Inside you can easily use a walker, again no steps even out to the decks. You’ll have
two keys. One to the unit and the other to all exterior doors in the complex. Use them to get in the front entrance (shown left) or use it to open any side door throughout the complex.
Guests
If you have guests coming, you can warn the guard or tell your guests to just say they are visiting unit #4108. They should be fine without a parking permit after being admitted. However, if they stay for a long time put a permit on their dashboard. Overnight guests are not allowed.
Finding Unit #4108
Guests can come to the front entrance and text/call you to come open the door. The enunciator calls the apartment’s owner (not you) so that won’t help. The best way to have visitors find you is simply to ask them to walk down the outer path directly to the unit’s deck entrance, as described below. This is a big advantage, being on the first floor at Tidewatch.
We’re the last unit at the extreme end of the condo complex. It’s easiest to just walk through the gate from the parking lot, down the gravel to the flagstone path to #4108 to the end. Copy & paste this picture into a text/email for any guest to guide them:
Walk as far as you can until you come to a small patio with two Adirondack chairs on it. To your left is the gate to our deck, shown below. Just let your guests in through the slider. If you are coming and the slider is locked, use the entry door closest to the end of the path using your key. Grab a glass of wine and head back out to the Adirondack chairs on the patio or just sit on the deck. No one ever complains if they have to wait on the patio for a little while for you to arrive.
