Beaches
+8
Nov 5, 2026
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5 min read
Saturday's open house comes in six separately listed pieces. Who should book which, and what the bay's buoy reads now.
Spotlight
+4
Oct 29, 2026
4 min read
Ray Thacher Jr. keeps a two-acre bog by his home. He says the trust that bought the 50 acres takes over in January.
+5
Its 318th meeting is Monday, Nov. 2, 1 to 4:30 p.m., at Salt Pond in Eastham, in person and online, with time for public comment.
The Drift
+7
Oct 22, 2026
19 min read
The first rule for this season’s beach find is the one that feels wrong.
8 min read
Cold-stunned sea turtles strand on Cape Cod Bay beaches from November to mid-January. Mass Audubon's five steps, and why each exists.
Wellfleet
7 min read
The club's first walk, at Kent's Point in 2022, drew 11 people. It now counts 3,000-plus members and asks every newcomer to take a clinic first.
+6
A granite tower from Boston stands in the North Truro scrub with no path to it, a famous legend attached and a 1981 federal file.
+3
Oct 15, 2026
6 min read
Twenty-five years to let one Harwich brook out of its pipe, and a cinder-block den with a camera inside, recording an empty doorway for weeks.
3 min read
A family spent decades conserving land on Lieutenant Island. The last 2.5 acres come with a house the state grant won't allow.
Chatham
11 min read
OysterFest fills Main Street this weekend. The shell from your first dozen has a year at the transfer station ahead of it, and the town's founding oyster story has a neighbor's name penciled in the margin.
Dogs
Oct 1, 2026
Between Labor Day and Nov. 2, the Lower Cape hands its beaches back to dogs town by town, while the National Seashore keeps its own calendar. Here is the order, and the invisible lines where the rules change mid-walk.
Sep 24, 2026
Three empty historic houses on the National Seashore are up for lease. The government lists every fault. It won't price a single one.
Aug 28, 2026
Terrapin hatchlings turn their backs on the marsh — and the year the clutches got smaller was the best news Wellfleet's volunteers had seen.
Aug 20, 2026
10 min read
A bomb squad blew something up in Orleans on Tuesday. The reason it was sitting on the beach involves a Liberty ship they shot at for years, an artillery range along the Wellfleet cliffs, and a thousand-yard circle of water you are still not legally allowed to enter.
Aug 13, 2026
Thirty years ago they dragged two lighthouses back from the edge. One of the estimates they made lands right about now.
Jul 30, 2026
2 min read
The valve is installed. Nobody has turned it. Here's what happens when they do.
Forty-four parcels were studied. Six made the list. All six are in Brewster.
Jul 16, 2026
What came back to it changed the water off Chatham for good — and brought something with it.
+2
Jul 2, 2026
Shore fishing the Lower and Outer Cape, from Orleans to Provincetown.
