Moose,
The reason I miss the cape has more to do with the way I feel when I'm
there than being a place for summer vacation. We never go during peak
season, always in September or early October. That time of year usually
ensures that the hiking trails and beaches will have few crowds.
It's one of the few places where I seem to feel happy that I'm me. I
think it has to do with the fact that I'm usually in a place where
people are taking care of the environment as well as the wildlife as in
the Wellfleet Sanctuary.
I was also raised in the Midwest so anything to do with an ocean
fascinates me. I love the power of it and how it shapes the landscape.
There's more to it than this though I'm not that good at using words to
describe my feelings.
On 1/26/2016 4:44 PM, Moose wrote:
On 1/26/2016 8:15 AM, Richard Lovison wrote:
Taken at the cape a year ago. I miss the cape especially Wellfleet
Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
https://richardlovison.wordpress.com/
OTOH, is seems hard for a Left Coaster to "get" the Cape as something
so special. Perhaps one must have grown up in the NE, with the serious
winters and hot, steamy summers inland and have memories of happy
summers there. After Labor Day, it's mostly just a bunch of towns like
much of NE, that happen to be near beaches and water. Considering the
number of people in Chatham in the Fall, it must be impossible to even
move in summer. We did have fun last year "thrift shopping", following
a brochure listing them from Chatham west 'til they were closing, then
walking in a nice little sanctuary in Harwich. We got too much good
stuff - and a nice, inexpensive suitcase to take it and our other
acquisitions home. :-)
We're not much attracted to crowded summer resort areas. We were in La
Jolla and San Diego this summer (to visit a friend). Usually, it's
nice right out at the beaches, but there was a heat wave, and the
place was jammed with people. Kind of comical, really, in La Jolla
Village, as the groups went up and down the street, on their way to
and from sea kayaking lessons/tours. LOTS of flesh on display. ;-)
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