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| View from dune crest towards Great Island |
Walk up to the Dune Crest, nothing but wind, birds and water
greet your senses. Look down on the beach below where the sand gradually creates a spit of land as the tide goes out.
Early in the summer part of the area below you is marked off as a nesting site for the endangered piping plover, but always
the spit is a landing spot for a wide variety of shore birds. And naturally so given the great abundance and wide variety
of shellfish and plant life available to migrating birds here. Depending on the time of season you are likely to see
swallows overhead or perhaps one of the large ospreys which nest in boxes in the marshes. You can even see one of
the nests in the distance from the house. And a little bit to your right (better viewed from the deck of the house)
is one of the best swimming beaches on the island.
Across from you is Indian Neck in Wellfleet. Further out
is Great Island, a National Seashore site which protects Wellfleet Harbor and provides a gentle ridge on the horizon.
Though you can see a few houses in the distance across the way and a few around you on Lt. Island, for the most part the feeling
is you are alone in nature and ready to relax.
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| View east from the dune crest |
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