Cape Cod Day 3 - Marconi Beach (8/14)

Monday was a hot day so we got up early and headed to Marconi Beach. I was a strange year at the ocean side beaches since a significant amount of seaweed was in the water almost everywhere we went. Some if it was the common brown mung that we're used to but there was also some "leafy" green seaweed as well. At Marconi, a high tide had deposited a good amount of the stuff in a large depression that ran parallel to the water for several hundred yards.

But some of the seaweed was still trapped at the waters edge. As we got further away from the crowds, we found several flocks of shorebirds feeding off this rackline. In the water we spied a small group of Scoters as well as some Common and Least Terns.

When I got into the water I understood what attracted these birds. Just past the floating seaweed were thousands of small fish. They seemed to flow around your body as you waded thru the water.

Then there were the Gray Seals. We spotted them every time we went to the beach. They were everywhere (more on that later).