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 and leave a parking pass on the dash for the duration of your stay. Yes, we have condo police monitoring the lot.
In the a kitchen island drawer you’ll find parking permits for three 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, on weekends. Ask your guests to tell him they are visiting unit #4108. If they stay for a while, put a guest pass (provided) on the dash.
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 front entrance at the other end of the complex. The owner’s wife has limited mobility so he drops her off at the entrance and she sits in the lobby while he parks. He then walks to the condo and drives back her electric mobility cart (there are no steps) and hands it off to her. Nothing to it.
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 sets of 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 to open any side doors throughout the complex accessing paths to the beach, parking lot and courtyard.
Guests
If you have guests coming on a weekend, tell them to just say they are visiting unit #4108. Stick a parking permit on their dash, as mentioned above. Overnight guests are not allowed, if they exceed two people in the unit.
Finding Unit #4108
Guests can come to the front entrance and text/call you to come open the door. The annunciator calls the apartment’s owner (not you in the apartment) 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 with its own exterior sliding doors.
We’re the last unit at the end of the condo complex. It’s easiest to just walk from the parking lot to the gate, and then down the gravel to the bluestone path to the end. Take a screen shot of the picture below & paste it into an email and send it to visitors.
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. Let your guests in through the slider. Grab a glass of wine and head back out to the Adirondack chairs on the patio or just sit on the deck.
I prefer to use this outside path and access the entry door closest to the end of the path (see the little path just before the curved arrow) using the key we provide to all the outer doors.
