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EASTHAM Cape Cod’s Outer Beach has always been known for its shipwrecks. Between 1626 and the mid-20th century, this solitary 40-mile stretch of what is now the outer beach of the Cape Cod National Seashore saw the demise of more than 3,000 vessels.
It’s been said that if all the wrecks were raised, one could walk from Provincetown to Chatham without getting his or her feet wet.
Since 2015, Don Wilding has been writing the popular “Shore Lore” column for The Cape Codder, often focusing on maritime tragedies. He has now compiled some of those columns and more research for his third book, “Cape Cod Shipwrecks: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph.”
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Gordon Peabody likes to say that his company, Safe Harbor, uses the power of the wind and waves to rebuild natural shoreline protections like beaches and dunes.
One technique involves placing thousands of slats in random patterns on a beach mimicking stalks of beach grass. In theory, they slow down wave velocity causing the sand it carries to settle out and bulk up a beach instead of destroying it.
If there s one trend Peabody has noticed in over 30 years of work, it s the raw power he thinks climate change has injected into storms. It s what he saw at Ballston Beach in Truro in 2013. A megastorm, one of several big powerful winter storms that have besieged the Cape in recent years, developed off the coast as arctic air collided with a warm southern air mass. The storm spun hammered the coastline with hurricane-force winds, breaching an offshore sandbar and overrunning a coastal dune.
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“Pardon?”
“I mean, what do they do all day? Where do they go? Do they just hunker down in the woods and wait for dark?”
“Good question” I said. We often see them at dusk, and even more often at night, like the proverbial deer caught in our headlights, but I don’t think they’re strictly nocturnal.”
“But, “she persisted, “I mean we never see them
doing anything, though we often see the results of what they do: having grazed our garden or trimmed the lower limbs of spruce trees. And when we do see them in the daytime, they’re usually already moving away from us up a forested slope, having seen us before we see them. Their lovely long necks craned backwards over their shoulders to see if we’re following them. Their ridiculously large white tail flags waving as if encouraging us to follow them, as if their movements were only in reaction to us.
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