What can I do in Cape Cod?

[Courtesy Flush]

My wife wrangled a business conference in CC, and I'm going along. I know it's a haven for the rich, but we're just working people. I'd like some idea of good places to eat and things to do. As luck would have it, we'll be there on our wedding anniversary. We'll be in the Wellfleet area.

I'm into art, and also would love to catch a baseball game if there's one in the area. I love sailing, but I'm not willing to spend a fortune to sail in Cape Cod when I can sail free at home.

Any ideas?

[graywarrior]

1. P Town, if nothing else.

[madinmaryland]

5. Someone should FREE THE DUCK!

[graywarrior]

7. Weren't you at the cape last summer?

Oh, BTW



Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

9. Free the DUck!

[graywarrior]

11. .

[Xipe Totec]

12. I gather that's a NO.

:P

[graywarrior]

14. !

[Xipe Totec]

22. Not even if I bribe you?

With your own money?

[graywarrior]

24. Ha ha ha ha ha!

I should teach him/her/it to panhandle.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Orleans

Half-way up the Cape.

Four things to recommend it.

1.- You can actually visit both the Cape and the Atlantic coast beaches from Orleans (Nauset beach, Skaket beach).

2.- The Cape Cod National Seashore Museum is near Orleans.

3.- Kaydee's Seafood restaurant is half-way between both beaches.

4.- It is an artist dive, and there is A LOT of local art for sale in Orleans....

(5).- If you decide you don't like it, you can still go all the way to P-Town


http://www.capecod-orleans.com

[SoxFan]

3. Baseball!

The Cape Cod League is considered the country's best summer wooden bat amateur league. Some of the Cape League's alums include Kevin Youkilis, Chase Utley, Ryan Braun, Mark Teixieria, J.J. Putz, Jason Bay, Carlos Pena and Evan Longoria.

Here's a link to the league web site:

http://www.capecodbaseball.org/

[flvegan]

6. I forgot about Orleans Park.

A short drive from Wellfleet. Good thinking!

[flvegan]

4. Wellfleet? You're WAY out on the arm.

Provincetown, as has been mentioned is only 25 miles away or so. That's a good visit. You're out of luck on baseball unless you can get Red Sox tickets and they still run the PTown to Boston ferry. If you like golf, there's a decent course out that way. I forget the name. As for places to eat, I hope you like seafood. If so, you've got more choices than you could ever hope for.

[SoxFan]

8. Cape League

It's basically the equivalent of Class A minor league ball.

[flvegan]

13. Yeah, you jogged my memory.

See Post 6.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Sit in traffic. Deal with jackasses trying to cram too much vacation into too little time.

Have sympathy for the locals who have to put up with all the asshole tourists during the summer.

[KittyWampus]

16. I shall tack this on here... I live on eastern LI. Very similar to Cape Cod in many ways

and even though these places are perceived as enclaves of the very wealthy, there are many local residents who are either working poor or going hungry.

Both places have lots of baymen. People who never finished school and went to work on the fishing boats and now that the fishing industry is heavily curtailed, it is rough.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Indeed. Local residents who are losing their homes because the weekend warrior jackasses

are raising the property values with their stupidly huge-ass fucking "weekender" or "summer" homes.

I dislike very strongly people who have no respect for the localities to which they go.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

23. A friend who lives in Falmouth -

works at Woods Hole - wanted to go to a local produce stand last summer, to get some tomatoes for dinner that night. The stand is about two miles from his house.

He returned, three hours later, without tomatoes.

The traffic was so thick, so stand-still, he gave up and came home.

He would have done better by walking.

The Cape in summer is a horrible, horrible place.........................

[edbermac]

15. Just got back from Dennis Port.

Just go to the local chamber of commerce or a nearby hotel, they have loads of free guide books and other info.

http://www.capecodchamber.org/

[virgogal]

17. Check out the Cape Cod League for baseball and where on earth

did you get the idea that The Cape is a haven for the rich? Lots of just plain folk vacation there.

[tigereye]

18. relatives of mine owned a home there for many years -

they are pretty well off, but not excessively so. There was a great article in the NYT a few weeks ago about lots of small out of the way ponds and areas in the National Seashore that sounded like wonderful havens - for wildlife and people seeking quiet and beauty.

[bif]

20. In Wellfleet visit Hatch's Fish Market

There are a couple nude beaches in Wellfleet and Truro. There's a great pizzeria in P-Town. Be sure to order a pie with Linguica on it. It's a tasty Portuguese sausage.

[Paladin]

21. P Town, Lobster, Whale Watching, Cemeteries From The 1600's. (n/t)

[marzipanni]

25. When, and how long will you be there?

I have a friend who knows Wellfleet well, I can ask him about restaurants and stuff.

[Courtesy Flush]

28. Aug 8 for a week

[marzipanni]

30. He said, " walk on the Cape Cod National Seashore, that's free."

I'd look up the place you'll be staying on Google maps, and determine if you can walk to a food store if you'll have a little fridge in your room, or maybe rent bikes some days. I would get food from a grocery store for one, if not two, meals a day, and get a good seafood meal for lunch (or dinner for your anniversary!} My friend says it's pretty expensive. You can scope out menus and stuff by googling; here's one page of yelp restaurant reviews~
http://www.google.com/search?q=Yelp+Wellfleet+Massachusetts+restaurant+reviews&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N&btnG=Search

My friend likes to fish and cook, so he might not be up on restaurant information. :)

[Courtesy Flush]

31. Thank you! n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. Race Point Beach and lighthouse, north of P-town.

It's absolutely stunning.

[trof]

27. Ya gotta take a ferry to Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard.

And you just might rub elbows with somebody rich and famous.
Obama and family will be in MV sometime this summer.

[GCP]

29. That was my thought - there's a ferry from Hyannis

Also - Wellfleet harbor is lovely in the evening when the fishing boats are coming back - you can get an ice=cream there with jimmies.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

35. Obama and family in MV?

Along with legit reporters, papparazi, support staffers, secret service, groupies, local LEOs, and various hangers-on.

Yikes, no thanks. Try to hit a restaurant when that circus is in town.

:scared:
:hi:

[Forkboy]

32. Watch rich people compare their lawns and boats.

That's what I did when I lived there. Liberal haven my ass. :)

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

33. Wonder as you sit in traffic - why am I here? why are these other people here?

Cape Cod is a complete travesty.

It might have been a nice get-away 60 years ago, but now it is just a nightmare.

In answer to your question, you can:

sit in traffic

buy overpriced seafood at kitschy seafood reataurants

buy lobster themed Tshirts and other ephemera

stay in a mildewy hotel room with non-functional airconditioning

did I mention sit in traffic?

There is not a single reason anyone should be in Cape Cod except the people who live there year round.

[Courtesy Flush]

34. There's one in every crowd.

Cape Cod is where we're going, crowds or not, since that's where my wife's conference is. I intend to enjoy my trip regardless of what Cape Code used to be like.