BRYAN EATON/Staff photo. People and their dogs venture out on a sandbar at Plum Island Point in the Merrimack River in a view from Salisbury Beach State Reservation around 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday. They had a little time to spend as the tide was going out with the low at 3:10 p.m.

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