A Bit of Wellfleet

Though I've been based in Boston while in the U.S. for the last few weeks, I had the chance to visit Wellfleet, Massachusetts, over the weekend. As a teen I'd spent a fair amount of time on Cape Cod, but since then I've only managed a few trips back. This time I stayed in a cottage on Lieutenant Island at the edge of vast salt marsh.

The light during the day was brilliant, and at night the stars stretching over the salt marsh were breathtaking.

This road, submerged at high tide, was part of my morning run.

We weren't far from Turtle Point with nesting Diamondback Terrapins.

There were horseshoe crabs, fiddler crabs and osprey.

And we caught up with my college writing teacher--author Corinne Demas and donkey friends.

The Cape Cod National Seashore was as perfect as ever...

and we swam close to a pair of seals (minus the sharks).

The whole weekend was so perfectly perfect that some in our party were actually leaping for joy.