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Tom, are there any reports of sharks attacking the beaches facing the Nantucket Sound, or Cape Cod Bay?

I am on the Cape Cod Bay side of the Cape. We have plenty of white sharks in our area on the Cape Cod Bay side, but they are harder to see because white sharks are primarily bottom cruisers.

On the Bay side the water is deeper, rockier, and darker, than on the sandy shallow water side of the east facing beaches on the other side of the Cape. Thus it is harder to spot them. But incidences and buoy reports show they are here. People reeling in striped bass have filmed the attacks where the white shark comes right out of the water, and people have run into them when the sharks go to the surface -Tom

Thanks, Tom. So it sounds like people are pretty safe on the South Beaches — and close to the shore on the Bay side.

The rocky features off the upper Cape Cod Bay and Plymouth Bay area marks the of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, of which Cape Cod is the more northern points.

Born and raised in Yarmouth, the coast plain’s terrain is marvelous for its beaches and shellfish.

Now that I live in Georgia, and they have the so-call “Gnat line”, that cuts through the middle of the state near Macon, Georgia. That marks the start of the Coastal Plain.

And the coastal plain is not so attractive in Georgia because of the huge gnat problem. When you combine the hot climate of Georgia and the gnat’s love of sandy soil, it’s an ideal climate for the growing of the gnats which buzz around everywhere and are a real quality of life issue.

On Cape Cod, the summer hot season is short enough that gnat don’t have a long enough season to be pests.

So that’s one of the principle attractions of Cape Cod — the outdoor life of marshlands and beaches without the insect issues. Sailing a BeetleCat in Lewis Bay as a boy was a wonderful thing growing up.