![]() In 1974, dog walkers discovered a body in the dunes at the Cape Cod National Seashore. ![]() The FBI took 50 years to solve a mystery of the dunes. Other books about the Great Beach include The Great Beachby John Hay, The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Codby Cynthia Huntington and The Shores of Bohemia:: A Cape Cod Storyby John Taylor Williams. Writers such as Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Mary Oliver, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut spent summers or lived in Provincetown. More than a few great works, though not about the beach itself, were written seashore-adjacent. He only intended to stay two weeks, but the nature surrounding him kept him there for a year. The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Codtells the story of his yearlong sojourn in a seaside cottage in Eastham. Henry Beston wrote another classic in 1925. He had visited the Cape several times and described hiking the Great Beach - now the Cape Cod National Seashore. Henry David Thoreau wrote the first one, Cape Cod, in 1865. The Great Beach has inspired several literary classics. Kinnikinnick, red bearberry, broom crowberry, pitch pines in Wellfleet. The entire national park provides a home to 25 rare and endangered species, including the spadefoot toad, the piping plover and the common tern (not so common anymore). Cape Cod heathlands have a lot of broom crowberry, something you won’t find much of in the rest of the world. Heathlands are open spaces covered with low vegetation like heather, gorse, broom and grasses. The National Park Service makes special note of the protected heathland because of its rarity. The seashore also includes 3,375 acres of grassland, 3,765 acres of deciduous forest, 11,500 acres of mixed pine forest, 2,550 acres of wetlands and ponds, 1,875 acres of salt marsh, 1,700 acres of beach and tide flats, 1,150 acres of developed land and 895 acres of heathland. That still leaves plenty of beach: Coast Guard Beach, Nauset Light Beach, Marconi Beach, Head of the Meadow Beach, Race Point Beach, Herring Cove Beach, Ballston Beach, Longnook Beach, Cahoon Hollow Beach and White Crest Beach. Of the 26,810 acres of land it comprises, only 1,700 acres are beach and tidal flats - or about 6 percent of the whole. The Cape Cod National Seashore isn’t just seashore. Here are seven more fun facts about a place you ought to go to if you haven’t been. As a longtime summer visitor to Cape Cod, he said he knew the new national park would be “useful.” ![]() Kennedy signed the law creating the Cape Cod National Seashore. For me, it's a single-string g-string for my husband, it's a snug, fishnet g-string. We walked back and forth from the parking lot wearing the same tiny swimsuits that we wear on South Beach in Miami and on Orient Beach in St. By the way, there were just a handful of people on the town beach. ![]() You just get a peaceful, easy feeling that the world is as it should be - if only for a few days. This is not really a place for excessive amorous activity - although you probably could engage in such. In fact, cell phone coverage is spotty, so you're almost forced to disconnect from the outside world. You really feel as though you've gotten away from it all. The setting is idyllic, with the high cliffs and endless seascape. We're under 30, and it might have been nice to see more people in our demographic, but perhaps they couldn't get time off on short notice. My husband siad that they just wanted to get a close, prolonged look at me, but they seemed harmless enough. Some men seemed to walk past us multiple times, sometimes starting a conversation with us. There were fewer than 30 people on about a mile of beach: about a dozen single men and a few mixed couples. Park rangers drove by a couple of times on ATVs but they were just going to check on the bird nests in the limited areas that are fenced off. The nude section is solely under the control of the CCNS, and officials ignore nudity in this section. The beach area near the parking lot is run by the town even though it's part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. ![]() Walking south (to the right) for about 10 minutes gets you to the nude section. It's at the end of Longnook Road which comes off Route 6. Longnook Beach is open to non-residents of Truro until the third Saturday in June and then again after Labor Day. This is the best beach for nude sunbathing on Cape Cod. We love being nude at the beach, as it is the most sensible, relaxing, and natural way to be. With the sudden appearance of summertime weather, my husband and I couldn't resist the temptation to take time off from work to spend a few days on the Cape. ![]()
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