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  Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Cape Cod Bay
Cape Cod Bay is ecologically rich with a complex and diverse array of coastal and marine habitats.
A semi-enclosed embayment that forms the southernmost extremity of Massachusetts Bay, Cape Cod Bay is bounded by Cape Cod to the south and east, Plymouth County to the west and Massachusetts Bay and the open ocean to the north.
Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket were all formed at the end of the last ice age when the Wisconsin ice sheet dissipated between 16,000 and 20,000 years ago.
www.coastalstudies.org /what-we-do/cc-bay-watch/ccbay.htm   (515 words)

  
 Cape Cod Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cape Cod Bay is a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
It is enclosed by Cape Cod to the south and east, and Plymouth County, Massachusetts to the west; to the north of Cape Cod Bay lie Massachusetts Bay and the open ocean.
Cape Cod Bay is the southernmost extremity of the Gulf of Maine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Cod_Bay   (255 words)

  
 Cape Cod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The large area of water enclosed by Cape Cod and the mainland seacoast to the north is Cape Cod Bay; west of Cape Cod is Buzzards Bay.
Cape Cod is connected to the mainland by a pair of canal-spanning highway bridges from Bourne and Sagamore that were constructed in the 1930s, and a vertical-lift railroad bridge.
Cape Cod was a landmark for early explorers, possibly the "Promontory of Vinland" of the Norse voyagers (985-1025).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cape_Cod   (2360 words)

  
 About Cape Cod
Cape Cod sweeps 70 miles into the Atlantic Ocean from Southeastern Massachusetts and is surrounded by the warm salt waters of Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod Bay, the Atlantic Ocean and Nantucket Sound.
Cape Cod is steeped in history, bursting with visual and performing arts, replete with fine dining and filled with opportunity.
The weather in March on Cape Cod is unpredictable at best and it is not uncommon to experience some light scattering of snow and occasionally heavy snowfall.
www.capecodgiftshow.com /about.html   (567 words)

  
 Bay Pointe, Cape Cod
Bay Pointe Country Club was built in the late 60's - and was known as Wareham Country Club until 1988.
Bay Pointe now possesses the unique collection of 19 holes and two distinct clubhouses ~ The Golf House and The Pavilion.
Playing to a par-70, Bay Pointe is rated 70.3 and sloped 118 from the back tees.
www.capecodgolfpackages.com /baypointe.htm   (115 words)

  
 Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies | Cape Cod Bay
To preserve Cape Cod Bay as a State Ocean Sanctuary, as defined by Chapter 132 of the General Laws of Massachusetts.
As a follow-up to its four-year monitoring program on the effects of the Boston Outfall on Cape Cod Bay, the board and staff of the Center have decided to expand its commitment to marine conservation of Cape Cod Bay.
Data will therefore be collected along the entire shoreline of Cape Cod Bay, targeting areas of concern such as harbors, sewage disposal sites, surface water discharge sites, and shellfish beds, as well as from the offshore waters and less accessible regions of the bay.
www.coastalstudies.org /what-we-do/cc-bay-watch/index.htm   (371 words)

  
 Truro - Cape Cod, MA.
With over half of its land area within the Cape Cod National Seashore District, the residents of Truro are dedicated to preserving the special character of this seashore community.
Southeastern Massachusetts, at the "wrist" of Cape Cod.
Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the north and east, Wellfleet on the south, and Cape Cod Bay and Provincetown on the west.
www.capecodweb.com /capeinfo/truro.htm   (492 words)

  
 Welcome to Bay Cottage on Cape Cod
Nestled on the edge of the marshes of Cape Cod Bay, Bay Cottage provides a gracious setting from which to discover both the charms and the attractions of Cape Cod.
Bay Cottage is a recently built English style cottage located in the historic district of Orleans in the heart of the Cape.
The Nest is a cozy apartment-in-the treetops with a commanding view of Cape Cod Bay.
www.baycottagecapecod.com   (455 words)

  
 Cape Cod Pathways Trail Guide
Cape Cod Pathways is a growing network of trails linking Cape Cod's coastal areas, historic villages, and open space.
With the exception of trails within the Cape Cod National Seashore, the directory is organized by town.
Cape Cod Pathways sponsors an annual fall Walking Weekend, and other trail events are held throughout the year.
www.capecodcommission.org /pathways/trailguide.htm   (3735 words)

  
 Cape Cod Bay Side
But because of the Cape's hook-like shape, such displays are one of the bonuses of visiting the sheltered side of Cape Cod, the section that faces the bay.
Besides ocean sunsets, the bay side offers warmer water temperatures, as well as calm and shallow swimming areas that are ideal for families and kayakers.
The Cape is surprisingly narrow, and odds are, if you want a change of scenery, that change is only minutes away.
masstraveljournal.com /features/0404capebay.html   (311 words)

  
 stranded whales and dolphins in Cape Cod Bay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The area we are specially interested in for Cape Cod Bay strandings is the popular whale and dolphin habitat north of Iceland about 550 miles and south on Iceland about 1,000 miles.
Cape Cod received a lot of mass strandings in December 2005 and January 2006.
Cape Cod might also be getting more strandings this year because of local wind patterns further north.
www.deafwhale.com /stranding/cape_cod.htm   (1165 words)

  
 CCDAD | Cape Cod Disability Access Directory
Orleans, the Queen of the Cape, is dotted with many fresh water ponds as well as having the very popular Nauset Beach, a long sandy stretch right on the Atlantic Ocean.
The only town on the Cape with a name not of Indian or English heritage but of French origins, Orleans truly is the crossroads of the Lower Cape.
It is the oldest Windmill on the Cape and was built in Plymouth in 1680 and moved to its present location in 1793.
www.capecoddisability.org /outer.html   (629 words)

  
 Cape Cod sport fishing
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The 2004 season in Cape Cod Bay was the best it has been in years, with daily limits of striped bass and bluefish a regular occurrence.
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 Cape Cod Connection - Fall Walks on Cape Cod
Cape Cod's summer is the most appealing season to the vast majority of vacationers, which is a shame, not because summer isn't great, but because fall on Cape Cod presents a different face for those who dare to make the trek sans swimsuit and tanning oil.
While fall on the Cape can't boast the spectacular foliage displays presented by our northern New England neighbors, neither is there a complete lack of nature's autumn fireworks, nor places to enjoy the outdoors at a time when many consider nature to be at its best.
During this walk along the the tip of the Cape, it is easy to grasp a sense of traditional Cape Cod at its most authentic.
www.capecodconnection.com /capecod/fall.htm   (1369 words)

  
 Cape Cod Beaches
Cape Cod has some of the worlds most beautiful beaches.
quiet Cape Cod Bay side beaches with calm cool water, to the warm gentle waves of the beaches on Nantucket Sound, to the wild and roaring surf of the beaches laying on Cape Cods eastern shore.
Lower Cape, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard; from there the information is categorized by town.
www.capecodweb.com /capeinfo/beaches.htm   (184 words)

  
 Schooner Bay Lady II, 2006 hg
Each trip is unique as the varied moods of the wind, sky sea combine to create an ever-changing panorama, accompanied by the sounds of wind in the rigging and the lapping of water against her hull.
The BAY LADY II, built in 1984 by "Washburn and Doughty" in Woolwich, Maine, is the largest and safest schooner in the passenger trade plying Cape Cod waters.
The Bay Lady II is owner operated and licensed and inspected by the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Marine Inspection.
sailcapecod.com   (312 words)

  
 Cape Cod Bay fishing charters on the Stunmai II
His intimate knowledge of the Bay and all it's idiosyncrasies guarantees that your day on the water will be an enjoyable one.
A lot of boats fishing the Bay use wire line and heavy rods to troll rigs and to jig.
Having chartered on Cape Cod Bay for the last 25 years, Capt. Hap Farrell has an intimate knowledge of the Bay, and what it takes to consistently put fish in the boat.
www.capecodbaycharters.com   (560 words)

  
 Cape Cod Vacation - Cape Cod Vacation Rentals from The Rental Company
Cape Cod Bay is the large body of water that sits in the curled arm of the Cape.
The bay is shallow, the tides gradual, and the water is warmer than the ocean.
In Chatham and Harwich the south side of Cape Cod is another type of ocean beach but quieter and warmer waters as the Island of Martha Vineyard and Nantucket are directly across the waters and block the mighty open ocean from the beaches in that area.
www.capecodvacation.com /index.cfm?page=12   (2175 words)

  
 Cape Cod Today
The right whales - two of 42 right whales sighted in the Bay so far this year - were near the Cape Cod Canal that large ships use on their way to industrial ports to the north and south.
The whales were sighted as the Shearwater was on a routine research cruise conducting tests on the water column for zooplankton, a chief food for right whales, for the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) under the direction of PCCS Senior Scientist Dr. Charles “Stormy” Mayo.
Based on the recent observations of right whales in the Bay, the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries issued an advisory to mariners last week recommending that operators of all types of vessels post lookouts and maintain speeds of 15 knots or less while transiting the Bay.
www.capecodtoday.com /printnews124.htm   (703 words)

  
 OnCape: Cape Cod's Destination Guide
There is only the smell of the sea and the feeling of the crisp ocean air aboard this schooner.
Later, he captained the Olad in 1969 before purchasing the Bay Lady II in 1987.
But the Bay Lady II is not about teaching passengers how to sail.
www.capecodonline.com /oncape/schooner0802.htm   (561 words)

  
 Cape Cod.com: Local Business & Community Information for Cape Cod and the Islands
Cape Cod based businesses are invited to submit a FREE basic listing online or contact our advertising department for information on CapeCod.com featured business listings and sponsorship packages.
Cape Cod webcam with views of Hyannis Harbor and the Ocean Street Docks.
Cape Cod Restaurant Guide to find HUNDREDS of places to eat on Cape Cod & the Islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
www.capecod.com   (1073 words)

  
 Cape Cod Bay Cruises - Dennis, MA
Cruises depart from Sesuit Harbor in East Dennis and your cruises itinerary can be specified by you anywhere on the seas from the Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown.
Capture the Beauty of Cape Cod Bay and Its Coastline.
You will notice the address for Cape Cod Bay Cruises will be already be completed in the destination part of the form.
www.capecodbaycruises.com   (280 words)

  
 OnCape: Cape Cod's Destination Guide
History books, however, often only associate our salty peninsula with the Pilgrims and some family from Hyannisport with a last name that starts with K. Helen Keller visited Breakwater Beach in Brewster, which looks north over Cape Cod Bay, back in the summer of 1898 when she was 18 years old.
We begin by cranking the time machine back to the summer of 1898, when a remarkable 18-year-old made her first ever trip to the sea.
At the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Davis was an usher before becoming a starlet.
www.capecodonline.com /oncape/capeconnection18.htm   (622 words)

  
 Cape Cod Travel Guide | Fodor's Online
Separated from the Massachusetts mainland by two heavily trafficked bridges over the Cape Cod Canal (17½ mi long and, at 480 ft wide, the world's widest sea-level canal), the Cape is always likened in shape to an outstretched human arm bent at the elbow, its Provincetown fist turned back toward the mainland.
Through the creation of National Historic districts, in which change is kept to a minimum to preserve the area's historic integrity, similar protection has been extended to the Cape's oldest and loveliest man-made additions.
One of the most important and eye-pleasing districts is the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), on the Cape's north shore, where some of the Cape's first towns were incorporated in the mid-1600s.
www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=cape_cod@44   (339 words)

  
 Buttermilk Bay Inn - Cape Cod - Buzzards Bay - Massachusetts
Buttermilk Bay Inn - Cape Cod - Buzzards Bay - Massachusetts
ocated on Cranberry Highway, not far from the Cape Cod Canal, the Buttermilk Bay Inn is restored to its original 1940s luster, the inn - with its own private beach - has 27 rooms, many with spectacular water views, all with private baths.
Buzzards Bay has an assortment of activities for the young and young at heart, from a water park to miniature golf, from batting cages to go-karts, and from arcades to ice cream parlors.
www.buttermilkbayinn.com   (467 words)

  
 Cape Cod Sea Camps - Facilities
CCSC's main campus is located directly on Cape Cod Bay in Brewster, MA, just 90 minutes from Boston.
The 58 acre campus has a beautiful rolling, sandy terrain which includes open fields, woodlands, a pond and bog, and a quarter mile beachfront.
With 1000' of beachfront on Long Pond, Cape Cod's largest freshwater lake this location is used throughout the summer for lake front swimming and boating activities.
www.capecodseacamps.com /facilities.htm   (105 words)

  
 Flyfishing Striped Bass on Cape Cod
Fly fishing striped bass on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Including: the Cape Cod Canal, Nantucket Sound, Cape Cod Bay, and the Atlantic; from Falmouth to Chatham to Provincetown, Bays.
If they are not in the bays and rivers come summer, then they may still be at the river mouths and bay entrances.
www.capecodoutdoors.com /FlySB.html   (877 words)

  
 Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises, Cape Cod | Whale Watch Experience (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Traveling through Cape Cod Bay and beyond, one has an excellent chance of encountering a great variety of whales, dolphins, harbor porpoises, sea birds and unusual fish.
Cape Cod's Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises is a proud supporter of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), working together to promote responsible whale watching and educate the public about the threats facing these magnificent animals worldwide.
Cape Cod's Hyannis Whale Watcher Cruises is a proud supporter of International Fund for Animal Welfare in their worldwide conservation efforts.
www.whales.net.cob-web.org:8888   (270 words)

  
 Cape Cod Outdoors, fishing for striped bass, charters, fly ... (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Cape Cod Outdoors, fishing for striped bass, charters, fly...
Cape Cod charter fishing for striped bass, flyfishing for bonito, false albacore and bluefish.
Fishing charters on Bay, Sound and Atlantic or the flats for one or two, boats for groups large and small.
www.capecodoutdoors.com.cob-web.org:8888   (282 words)

  
 Cape Cod Rails - Bay Colony Railroad Photographs
January 27, 2004: Bay Colony has borrowed Cape Cod Central Railroad GP-7 No. 1501, and it's the power for this morning's trash train.
We catch them switching flyash cars at Gallo Construction underneath the Sagamore Bridge, where they drop off an empty car and pick up one load, and then follow them on the rest of their journey to Yarmouth.
Subcribe to the Cape Cod Rails mailing list to receive occasional news and updates.
www.capecodrails.com /bclr_photos/040127a/index.shtml   (271 words)

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