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Welcome to the New Cap Cod

8/21/2013

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There’s something very different about Cap Cod this year. Yes the beaches are still some of the best on the East Coast and the number one reason that people come to the Cape. The Cape has attracted a whole new group of guest that are coming to the beach to enjoy the summer and dine on some great Cape Cod seafood. The Great White Sharks are becoming a more common sight along the elbow of New England’s coastline and most beach-goers are taking the new threat in stride. The sharks have come to prey on seals, whose numbers have skyrocketed in recent years due to the Federal protection that they are given. The warmer waters are attracting seals, and seals attract sharks. Chatham, the quaint village has become ground zero for the big fish. The beaches are also the number one reason tourists go there. 

This has become Shark Summer on Cape Cod, and rather than fleeing, the crowds are flocking. All over the
Cape, tourists are buying T-shirts printed with white sharks or shark jawbones. Seals taste like chicken,” one T-shirt says. “It’s always shark week in Chatham,” says another. Walk through the stores this year and everything is great white. It used to be seal merchandise. The Monomoy Island Ferry, which offered seal cruises on two different vessels have increased their daily departures with extra boats  and makes four trips a day, the prospect of seeing a shark, although rare, is enough to entice people. Remember the movie Jaws when the politicians tried to deny the existence of the great white shark? This is Shark Summer on Cape Cod, and rather than fleeing, the crowds are flocking. They have brought out the curios to marvel at the mysteries of nature. Yes we all love wildlife. Beaches, Clams, Ice Cream,  . . . and now sharks have become another of the Cape’s many attractions.

Massachusetts has emerged as the white shark hotspot in all of the Atlantic Ocean.  Captain Quint you were born at the wrong
time.


 

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