Cape Cod is....

[Anonymous]

If anyone can recommend a place where I can stay on a pristine sand-bottom pond, enjoy an afternoon at a beach with no waves where I can walk out a mile at low tide, and go on 20 mile bike rides on wooded bike paths and have it not be too hot to enjoy it, I am all ears. Bonus points if you can easily find a small two-bedroom house within a couple hundred feet from the water for less than $2500/week.

I hate driving to the Cape and would prefer to go somewhere closer. We just don't know of another place like this.

[Anonymous]

It is my favorite place on the East Coast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If anyone can recommend a place where I can stay on a pristine sand-bottom pond, enjoy an afternoon at a beach with no waves where I can walk out a mile at low tide, and go on 20 mile bike rides on wooded bike paths and have it not be too hot to enjoy it, I am all ears. Bonus points if you can easily find a small two-bedroom house within a couple hundred feet from the water for less than $2500/week.

I hate driving to the Cape and would prefer to go somewhere closer. We just don't know of another place like this.

A beach with no waves?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone can recommend a place where I can stay on a pristine sand-bottom pond, enjoy an afternoon at a beach with no waves where I can walk out a mile at low tide, and go on 20 mile bike rides on wooded bike paths and have it not be too hot to enjoy it, I am all ears. Bonus points if you can easily find a small two-bedroom house within a couple hundred feet from the water for less than $2500/week.

I hate driving to the Cape and would prefer to go somewhere closer. We just don't know of another place like this.

A beach with no waves?

Skaket beach

[Anonymous]

I grew up in MA and spent summers in Hyannis at my grandmother’s cottage and loved every minute. We have been taking our girls to Martha’s Vineyard most summers for a week or two and sometimes going to Nantucket as well. Katama area of Edgartown has become our family place to go and now we hope to buy a home next spring. I have a lot of family still in MA so I’m sure we will have many visitors if we decide to buy.

There is something magical about being on the island (to us) but if it doesn’t speak to you then I’m happy if you don’t go because it’s gotten too crowded! We love going to up island beaches or Long Point because South Beach is a madhouse in August. I’m guessing that it won’t be as bad if we spend a whole summer there and can avoid the beach on weekends in August.

We are flying up this year and if I bought I would fly more often than drive. It’s not too expensive if you plan ahead.

In terms of diversity I would say it has changed in the past ten years. We are a bi-racial couple and feel very comfortable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our family have many summers of wonderful Cape memories -- swimming, boating, biking, etc. We've traveled a lot over the years and had some really interesting trips throughout the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. Even so, our kids (now in their late teens and early 20s) are still thrilled that we'll go back to the Cape this summer. (Fingers and toes crossed!) In our experience, the only negative about the cape is that it's not diverse.

It is not close enough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in MA and spent summers in Hyannis at my grandmother’s cottage and loved every minute. We have been taking our girls to Martha’s Vineyard most summers for a week or two and sometimes going to Nantucket as well. Katama area of Edgartown has become our family place to go and now we hope to buy a home next spring. I have a lot of family still in MA so I’m sure we will have many visitors if we decide to buy.

There is something magical about being on the island (to us) but if it doesn’t speak to you then I’m happy if you don’t go because it’s gotten too crowded! We love going to up island beaches or Long Point because South Beach is a madhouse in August. I’m guessing that it won’t be as bad if we spend a whole summer there and can avoid the beach on weekends in August.

We are flying up this year and if I bought I would fly more often than drive. It’s not too expensive if you plan ahead.

In terms of diversity I would say it has changed in the past ten years. We are a bi-racial couple and feel very comfortable.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone can recommend a place where I can stay on a pristine sand-bottom pond, enjoy an afternoon at a beach with no waves where I can walk out a mile at low tide, and go on 20 mile bike rides on wooded bike paths and have it not be too hot to enjoy it, I am all ears. Bonus points if you can easily find a small two-bedroom house within a couple hundred feet from the water for less than $2500/week.

I hate driving to the Cape and would prefer to go somewhere closer. We just don't know of another place like this.

A beach with no waves?

LOL.

Pond = not a beach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is for the “there are no shark tours in Cape Cod” person: copious evidence of significant local engagement in white shark related activities:

https://saltycape.com/great-white-shark-sightseeing/

http://www.chathamfishingcharters.com/tours

https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/white-shark-expeditions

Even the whale tours have added great white excursions:
https://us.whales.org/support/expedition/

And hotels advertising shark related eco tourism:
https://chathamgablesinn.com/blog/cape-cod-shark-adventures/

And if this isn’t enough, use a google map satellite view of the Cape and Nantucket and then scroll in to the closest view. The thousands of sprinkle like black specs you see are seals. Those tens of thousands of seals support hundreds to perhaps 1000 great whites.

Mostly in Chatham because (wait for it) that is where the sharks are, WHEN/IF there are sharks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone can recommend a place where I can stay on a pristine sand-bottom pond, enjoy an afternoon at a beach with no waves where I can walk out a mile at low tide, and go on 20 mile bike rides on wooded bike paths and have it not be too hot to enjoy it, I am all ears. Bonus points if you can easily find a small two-bedroom house within a couple hundred feet from the water for less than $2500/week.

I hate driving to the Cape and would prefer to go somewhere closer. We just don't know of another place like this.

A beach with no waves?

LOL.

Pond = not a beach.

Bay beaches on the Cape have no waves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is for the “there are no shark tours in Cape Cod” person: copious evidence of significant local engagement in white shark related activities:

https://saltycape.com/great-white-shark-sightseeing/

http://www.chathamfishingcharters.com/tours

https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/white-shark-expeditions

Even the whale tours have added great white excursions:
https://us.whales.org/support/expedition/

And hotels advertising shark related eco tourism:
https://chathamgablesinn.com/blog/cape-cod-shark-adventures/

And if this isn’t enough, use a google map satellite view of the Cape and Nantucket and then scroll in to the closest view. The thousands of sprinkle like black specs you see are seals. Those tens of thousands of seals support hundreds to perhaps 1000 great whites.

Mostly in Chatham because (wait for it) that is where the sharks are, WHEN/IF there are sharks.

There were 8 great whites spotted yesterday spanning from Maguire Landing Beach down to Monomoy. Amazingly there was also one spotted off of the coast near Dennis! 1000 animals need space to hunt so they are going to spread out as the arrive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is for the “there are no shark tours in Cape Cod” person: copious evidence of significant local engagement in white shark related activities:

https://saltycape.com/great-white-shark-sightseeing/

http://www.chathamfishingcharters.com/tours

https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/white-shark-expeditions

Even the whale tours have added great white excursions:
https://us.whales.org/support/expedition/

And hotels advertising shark related eco tourism:
https://chathamgablesinn.com/blog/cape-cod-shark-adventures/

And if this isn’t enough, use a google map satellite view of the Cape and Nantucket and then scroll in to the closest view. The thousands of sprinkle like black specs you see are seals. Those tens of thousands of seals support hundreds to perhaps 1000 great whites.

Mostly in Chatham because (wait for it) that is where the sharks are, WHEN/IF there are sharks.

Sorry to have left out the folks up in P-town: http://www.provincetowncharterfishing.com/provincetown-shark-tour.html

Did not mean to slight folks at the tip of the north end of the Cape!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The real question concerning Cape Cod is whether you can get a real hoagie? In another thread, a vacation was ruined because they couldn't find a decent hoagie on the Outer Banks. Also, they were mad that the house they selected required a walk across the road to the beach.

Hoagie?

Do you mean a grinder?

Blasphemy!

It might be blasphemy...but it is a grinder.

[Anonymous]

A PP mentioned Sharktivity earlier, but I didn’t see a link posted to the organiztion’s website. You can download the app there. Great whites are all around the Cape and the Islands.

It also covers up to Canada, and down the Atlantic Seaboard. The Gulf of Maine has become a hotspot of activity, too.


https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/sharktivity-app

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A PP mentioned Sharktivity earlier, but I didn’t see a link posted to the organiztion’s website. You can download the app there. Great whites are all around the Cape and the Islands.

It also covers up to Canada, and down the Atlantic Seaboard. The Gulf of Maine has become a hotspot of activity, too.


https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/sharktivity-app

What was that song from a few years ago? Oh yeah.....


"LET IT GO............"