Swim #10: Barney's Joy Beach, South Dartmouth, MA

July 5, 2010 --  Barney's Joy is a private beach, and you can't even pay to join -- you have to have been born into the right family.  Fortunately Dan and Faith, our next-door neighbors in South Dartmouth, happen to be one of those families, and they generously bring us along every now and then.

Barney's Joy is gorgeous and never crowded (see above membership restrictions).  To get there, you have to drive through a working farm, so you are likely to end up with a very large steer in your path.  Then you park and walk over the dunes, and are faced with this beautiful, long stretch of beach.  Although it is not far from Round Hill Beach, it faces a different direction and therefore has the waves that Round Hill does not.  Here's Benjamin --