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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 2d

Greeting the #supermoon at Nauset Light, Eastham.

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 2d

Beach campfire for #supermoon2025 at Nauset Light Beach, Eastham.

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 2d

That’s me taking aim at the #supermoon2025 at Nauset Light Beach, Eastham. (Thanks to Wendy Golden for the photo!)

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 7d

"’The Outermost House’ is strong medicine. I genuinely believe that it will live for other generations. It stands alone, not only in this publishing year, but in any year."
— John Riddell, Vanity Fair, December 1928

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 7d

#thoreau #capecod

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 16d

Think we can make it? Not likely. That’s a long way from Chapin Beach in Dennis to the Sandy Neck dunes in Barnstable.

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 16d

RIP, Tommy Dill …

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 18d

Reflections at low tide.

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 18d

Sept. 20, 2015: Storm clouds hover over Stage Harbor Light, Chatham.

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 19d

Super September day as summer concludes at Chapin Beach ...

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 24d

She’s really loving this beach in September thing …

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 25d

From August 2019: View of the Atlantic from the Old Harbor Lifesaving Station at Race Point Beach, Provincetown.

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 26d

Found this at high tide along the west end of Chapin Beach. About 3 feet long. Doesn’t appear to be made of wood.

HISTORY ON TAP: HISTORIC STORMS OF CAPE COD — Cape Cod Maritime Museum

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · 28d

Still a couple of months away, but November will be here before you know it. On Thursday, Nov. 13, I'll be at the Cape Cod Maritime Museum in Hyannis, where I'll be bringing in "Historic Storms of Cape Cod.” Pick up a signed copy of the book! capecodmaritimemuseum.org/events-and-l...

Experience Cape Cod’s most devastating storms with Don Wilding—from monster hurricanes to the infamous Perfect Storm. See how wind, water, and disaster have shaped the Cape’s past.

capecodmaritimemuseum.org

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Sep 6

Riding the wild southwesterly winds along both sides of West Dennis Beach on Saturday afternoon.

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Sep 3

“The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” — John Muir

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Sep 2

Labor Day has come & gone. That means dogs can go to the beach again!

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Sep 1

“I went there to spend a fortnight in September. The fortnight ending, I lingered on, and as the year lengthened into autumn, the beauty and mystery of this earth and outer sea so possessed and held me that I could not go.”
— Henry Beston, “The Outermost House”

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Aug 31

#OTD in 1954, Hurricane Carol was the first of two tropical cyclones to hit Cape Cod, followed by Edna 11 days later. Read more about these events in my book, “Historic Storms of Cape Cod.” www.arcadiapublishing.com/products/978...

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Aug 30

The one and only Tim Sweeney performing at today's Orleans Farmers' Market. www.timsweeney.us

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Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Aug 29

#OTD in 2011: Hurricane Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm just before hitting New England, but the Cape still felt her presence. Some of us ventured out to Glendon Street Beach in Dennis Port to experience those gale force winds. #HurricaneIrene #tropicalstormirene

Don Wilding’s Cape Cod @dwcapecod.bsky.social · Aug 29

Storm clouds over Plymouth, as seen from Dennis this afternoon.