At Suffolk County, several red phalaropes and an Iceland gull at Deer Island and Winthrop Beach, and lingering dark-eyed juncos at Franklin Park and the Jamaica Pond area.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beachgoer. That s particularly true on Cape Cod, where everyone has a favorite sandy strand. It could be the grand sunsets or gentle water that brings you back to a certain beach time after time. Perhaps you like the big waves of the Atlantic-facing beaches, or exploring the endless low-tide flats on the bayside.
By my count, there are more than 100 beaches on our lovely peninsula. But which ones are the marquee beaches the ones that deserve epic TikToks, selfies and postcards? That, my friends, is a tough assignment. But I am leaping into the breach!
ORLEANS – I was meditating at the end of the Rock Harbor jetty, when a passing charter captain scooped me up in a giant net. Suspended precariously above the bay, I paid close attention to the grizzled seaman as he barked out this message: We all know that the pirate ship Whydah wrecked off Wellfleet in 1717. But did a companion vessel wreck on Pochet Island in the same storm?
My timbers were shivered by this piratical possibility! I whistled for the Curious Prius, which conveniently had just been outfitted for submarine duty. It bubbled up from the briny deep below me. I cut the net with the dagger app on my cell phone and dropped in through the sunroof we were off!