Sea Turtle Strandings on Cape Cod’s Bay-side Beaches.

Sea Turtle Strandings on Cape Cod’s Bay-side Beaches.

     This year the Wellfleet Bay Audubon and volunteers have rescued record numbers of stranded cold stunned sea turtles from Cape Cod’s bayside beaches including a number of endangered Kemp Ridley’s sea turtles.  If you come across a cold stunned turtle...

Welfleet Harbor circa early 1800s

Wellfleet Harbor certainly looked different back in the day.  Like the rest of the Cape Cod, Wellfleet had been completely denuded of trees soon after it was settled by the Europeans. The windmills and derricks were for salt works that supplied Wellfleet’s...

Wellfleet PAYT (Trash Disposal Changes)

Wellfleet PAYT (Trash Disposal Changes)       Wellfleet has instituted a Pay As You Throw (PAYT) system for its transfer station. This is in response to a significant increase in the amount the town will be charged for disposing of its trash. For years the town has...