Pack patience along with your sunblock when heading to Cape Cod this summer
Record house rentals and booming hotel reservations mean the Cape could be busier than ever this summer. Hereâs what you wonât want to miss.
By By Susan MoellerUpdated April 30, 2021, 8:15 a.m.
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A teenager does a handstand as the sun sets on Cape Cod Bay in Wellfleet.Stan Grossfeld/Globe staff/File
COME JUNE, Candace Bowen and her husband, John, will drive from northern Ohio to Eastham, to vacation in a rental house they rolled over from their canceled 2020 summer trip. Theyâll spend the next three weeks photographing sunsets at Rock Harbor, sitting on First Encounter Beach, grabbing a bite at Arnoldâs Lobster & Clam Bar, biking, doing jigsaw puzzles, hanging out with the kids and grandkids, and making their grown daughter listen one more time to that story about trying to eat Cape Cod sand when she was a child. After a year off, Bowen, a journalism professor at Kent
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Cape Cod National Seashore hosts National Park Week activities
Denise Coffey (dcoffey@capecodonline.com)
WELLFLEET – Interpretive guided walks, an historical scavenger hunt and some family friendly activities are on the docket for National Park Week at Cape Cod National Seashore.
The week, which kicks off Saturday and runs through April 25, includes all national parks in the country. The National Seashore is one of 16 national parks in the state and one of 400 across the nation.
COVID-19-safe programs are planned, according to Leslie Reynolds, assistant superintendent of the Seashore. They include interpretative, educational whale-watching walks led by National Park Service rangers, family-friendly activities at Button Bush Trail in Eastham, and pop-up activities at Salt Pond Visitors Center in Eastham.
I caught a few waves and was paddling back out and I was moving to stand up when I got knocked off my board, said 69-year-old Cleveland Cleve Bigelow It felt like getting hit by a truck while on a bicycle. It was a shock. I thought, What was that?
Bigelow, of Chatham, said he saw the bite marks on his board, got back on, and paddled in to shore as quickly as possible, alerting lifeguards and a nearby surf school.
He said he never saw the shark, and was not injured directly by it, but he did hurt his lower legs when he hit the board after the shark bit into it.
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