We are on vacation at our favorite place in Cape Cod, Skaket Beach. I’ve posted about this place many times. Pictures never do it justice. The crazy thing about this beach are the tides. At high tide it’s a normal, smallish nice swimming beach. It’s calm and on the bay side where the water is a little warmer.
Low tide is a completely different beach. You can literally walk straight out a mile without getting your knees wet. Yesterday morning, according to Google Maps, I was here:
That’s not bad GPS, that’s accurate. Here’s a picture from that location, looking back towards shore.
See the house we are staying in way in the background? No, I don’t either. But it’s there. So that’s low tide. Nothing unusual there, happens twice a day. At low tide people catch minutes, clams, crabs, harvest oysters, all kinds of things. As you can see, it was a cloudy morning and a storm passed through. There was a lightning concern so they had to clear the beach. Resulting in this odd beach ghost town.
Chairs and umbrellas, just no people.
Another nice thing about being on the bay side is that sharks are typically on the ocean side. Unfortunately, later on this same day we got our first ever water clearing shark warning.
And that would be the same beach at high tide. Basically everything in the first picture is under water.
The shark warming passed, all those folks got back in, and the beach went back to normal. Whatever constitutes normal at Skaket Beach…
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