DESTINATIONS-Wellfleet
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DESTINATIONS-Wellfleet
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| Great Island forms the western side of Wellfleet Harbor and extends about 5 miles from Chequesset Neck towards Eastham. Jeremy Point is a long sand spit extending about one mile beyond the end of Great Island. The sands shift from year to year ever changing the landscape. | Go Ashore on a deserted sandy Beach on Great Island. Take a swim in 70 degree water. Have a picnic, or get "lost" in the dunes. The boat will be waiting for you. | |
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| Great
Island
Beach-Harbor
and
Bay sides |
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| Busy
weekend
at
Great island,
Harbor side |
Michelle,
Marissa,
and
Amanda
beaching it on Great Island, Bay side |
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| Destination: Jeremy Point (Billingsgate Island in background) | ||
| Billingsgate
Island
once
comprised
50 acres with houses and people living there. By the
1920's it washed away and the houses were floated to the
mainland. All that remains is a rocky shoal. |
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| This is the very tip of Jeremy Point about 1/2 mile past the end of Great Island at dead low tide. The shoals of Billingsgate Island are exposed in the background. | Jeremy
Point
with
Billingsgate
Island in background at low tide. |
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| Destination: Great Island Inner Marsh | ||
| The
Great Island inner marsh has
a very small hidden entrance protected by a sand bar on the south, and
narrow entrance from the north. It can be accessed at high tide,
and is ideal for kayakers. I always wanted to take my boat in
there. July 31 we had light winds and high tide so we tried it. |
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| John,
(pushing
off
the bottom
with
boathook) "This marsh is cool" |
Marsh looking west towards Cape Cod Bay | |
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| Marsh
looking
west-detail
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See
the harbor on the other side of the beach! |
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| Great Island and Jeremy Point at Low
Tide |
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| Great
island
Bay
side low tide
looking north |
Cape
Cod
Bay
at low tide off
Great Island with Provincetown Monument in distance |
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| Great
Island
Bay
Side at low
tide looking southwest.. |
Cape
Cod
Bay
at low tide looking
west |
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| Blackfish Creek |
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| Blackfish
Creek
forms
an inlet
between Lieutenants Island and Indian Neck. You can see it from
the road across from the South Wellfleet General Store. It is
named after the "Blackfish" or Pilot Whales which go aground here
routinely, and have for hundreds of years. Previously gathered
for food and oil, the Marine Mammal Rescue League now tries to rescue
these cetaceans and take them back out to sea. No one knows why
they strand themselves here. |
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| Shore
of
Blackfish
Creek |
Blackfish
Creek
Houses |
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