I hurry down the wooded trail at Nickerson State Park making a beeline for Higgins Pond. It is late August. The deerflies and work have kept me from my favorite swimming pond for weeks. But as the season winds down, so do the long hours at the office and the pulse of summer. The pond [...]
If you’ve ever been pleasantly surprised by a dolphin peeking up at you from the ocean, you’ve experienced the joy of connecting with another living spirit. We smile at their playful antics – surfing waves, making aerial leaps or riding boat wakes. With their protruding beaks and conical teeth, dolphins seem to smile right back [...]
In the constantly shifting sands of the “backshore” of Provincetown, a number of tiny structures sit, precariously perched. “The Dune Shacks” as they are affectionately known, are vulnerable not only because they have a habit of falling into the ocean and having to be rescued, but because, like all of us, they eventually surrender to [...]
Healing the Land “The crust of the earth a spit’s depth excellent black earth; all wooded with oaks, pines, sassafras, juniper, birch, holly, vines, some ash, walnut; the wood for the most part open and without underwood, fit either to go or ride in.” — William Bradford, Mourt’s Relation, 1622. So the Cape and Plymouth [...]
We emerged from the thicket of shadbush onto the southern edge of High Head. The dune rose grandly before us, a huge wall of windblown sand. Its steep face glowed white and warm in the spring sun. Its surface was smooth and unblemished. It was a blowout that was free of dune grass and other [...]
To the North and East a deep shimmering bay, surrounded by steep cliffs tapering to sandy dunes and endless sea. To the South and West, islands near and far, warmer waters that stay through the tidal flow. Throughout all, great marshes and cedar swamps, the birthplace of the abundance that exists on tidal flats, in [...]
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