![]() Protection is the name of the game at Nauset not just for the dunes, but the birds nesting in the spring. The winter storms are a tremendous powerful force to see and brutal on the landscape, as each year the sand cliffs and bluffs take a beating, and give up more sand to the spits out in the ocean. During the summer months you’ll pay to use the lot. The lot is about 2 miles from Routes 6/6A. ![]() The entrance to Nauset beach is located in East Orleans at the end of Beach Road, where there’s a large parking lot. In the late afternoon sometimes we’d make out the seals riding the waves close to shore. We’d regularly spend close to two hours walking along the beach south towards Chatham, and meeting many other people with dogs on winter walks. Maybe it’s because I lived in Orleans and I got used to long walks on this beautiful beach with my wife, and two Golden Retrievers, in the changing seasons on the Cape. Nauset beach is one of the pearls in the Cape Cod National Seashore Park. So sit back and imagine you’re on the Cape, and just driven around the Orleans Rotary on Route 6 towards Eastham, and ready for your first stop… They show a film on the geology of Cape Cod, and provide much more information than I’m able to here. Okay, you’re back in present time once again, and ready to explore.īut if this is a subject that greatly interests you, then be sure to stop by the Cape Cod National Seashore Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. In fact it won’t ever be finished until Cape Cod is no longer around and succumbs completely to the inevitable forces that shaped it originally. The Cape Cod National Seashore landscape you see today is still under construction by nature. ![]() With the rising sea level and the protection from the battering ocean provided by Georges Bank gone, nature started to reshape the whole of Cape Cod. Well, because of other features and material surrounding the glacial lake, the water drained out exposing the sediment and deposits left by the glaciers from earlier times. At this time sea levels were very different, being about 400 foot lower than where they are now. Then the ice would ebb and flow, each time altering the landscape until about 12-18,000-years ago when it receded for good.Īt this last juncture it left a huge glacial lake where most of Cape Cod and Islands are now. The mountains to the north began to be sculptured by the glaciers as they moved. As it moved it took huge rocks and boulders with it and deposited them south. As the ice got thicker it begun to move under its own massive weight. This is a time when all of New England was covered by huge glaciers. We rented a house in Truro last yr in June and probably five or six were surfing in waves astone’s throw from our chairs!when my sisters and I went into the water( almost no one else there) the seals remained almost beside us! They were not afraid at all! We go out to Cape Cod several times a year for over 50 plus years now, all seasons and different times.we love the Cape so much!!!! If you go to Nauset or Coast Guard Beach in Eastham or Marconi Beach( definitely stop and see the “White Swamp” tucked to left of beach road if you go there! Amazing to see and “Marconi Station!” You will love the “WHITE CEDAR SWAMP”.So let’s go back in geological time, about one million years, to the great Ice Age. They seemed to come out in droves around five pm when each was more deserted but they were still there mid-day, too! We saw them at Marconi Station in Wellfleet ( lots), as well. ![]() Just about “all the beaches at the “National Seashore have great viewing”, for seals! I have observed them at “all the beaches from Chatham to P’town!” Honestly, the more crowded the beaches are( especially during high season) the less chance of seeing seals but no matter how busy it is you are still bound to catch a glimpse or two of seals bobbing in the ocean waves( so fun to watch)! Chatham( near the lighthouse) has the most and if you go around five or six pm you are bound to see lots, in particular! Just stand up in parking lot, looking down and you will see them! Nauset Beach & Coast Guard Beach, at the National Seashore in Eastham had the most! They were swimming right beside my son surfing, not afraid at all.
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