Podcasts about Cape Cod Canal

Today I am recording from one of my favorite Cape Cod spots, The Cape Cod Canal!  I am visiting my parents and i'm having an epic time! Yes we are of course going to the beach, but The Cape Cod Canal is such a special place to me!  It's where I used to rollerblade and watch my Dad fish when I was a child!  Today I yearn for the active lifestyle The Cape Cod Canal offers, it's overwhelming beauty and pure serenity it brings to me!  I feel like The Canal gets overlooks by most tourists visiting The cape...but for me it's where all the action is! Get ready to visit The Cape Cod Canal with me now! https://wickedsalty.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wickedsaltylife/  

On this week's episode of the Tide Chasers podcast, we head to Cape Cod to revisit some of our hosts' trips to the Cape over the last few years. From chasing Stripers on the Cape Cod Canal to doormat Fluke on the Nantucket Shoals we discuss the incredible fishing opportunities in the area. Our hosts also discuss restaurants, towns to visit, and everything you need to plan your first trip to Cape Cod!  Tide Chasers is a weekly podcast featuring local fishermen, charter captains, tackle shop owners and party boat captains among others. We discuss our local fisheries as well as opportunities to the north and south of our home waters of PA/NJ. If you or someone you know would like to be a guest, send us a message! Otherwise, we appreciate all the likes, shares, follows and subscribers as it helps us grow! Help us get the word out, hit that share button! Where to find Tide Chasers on Social media: Instagram: @tide_chasers Facebook: www.Facebook.com/tidechaserspodcast Hosts: Khoa @thatasianangler Bobby @fishingwithaphd Lee @ljssurfing Tyler @tmwilczek Guest : Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First Sunday of Lent 2024 What Is in the Treasure Box for You?: Find Out When You Meet the Father At the bottom of the Cape Cod Canal, there is a hole, a crater. Fish love to gather in this hole to get out of the fast current. It also allows them to reach out... The post Gospel-Homily for First Sunday of Lent (2024) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

The bridge has stood for nearly 90 years across the Cape Cod Canal. WBZ's Jim MacKay reports.

In this podcast preview, AJ Coots of Red Top Sporting Goods in Buzzards Bay, MA joins the podcast. AJ gives us an in-depth look inside what is going on along the banks of the Cape Cod Canal. His report includes some spotty Albies, an excellent Striped Bass Bite, and even a great Tautog bite within the canal itself. He also gives a Buzzards Bay fishing report and a bonus freshwater report on the excellent Trout fishery taking place right now in the kettle ponds of Cape Cod.

With both Cape Cod Canal bridges ready for replacement, this fall's effort focuses on completing an environmental impact statement and funding Phase 1 construction at the Sagamore Bridge. Lower Cape News caught up with John Bechard, Deputy Chief Engineer for Project Development at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to learn the latest on the project. Click to Watch the Full Story  

In this podcast preview, AJ Coots of Red Top Sporting Goods in Buzzards Bay joins the program! AJ gives us all we need to know about the Cape Cod Canal. His report indicates smaller baits such as peanut bunker have infiltrated the canal which is leading to different techniques being successful when targeting slot sized Striped Bass. AJ gives us his tips for tackle and lures to be successful when bass in the canal are on small bait. In addition, he provides an offshore update on Blue Fin Tuna and an inshore update on False Albacore.

Schools of mackerel have drawn large striped bass into the Cape Cod Canal, with reports of fish up to 50" being caught.

This is a snippet of our members-only podcast that we published this past Friday morning on myfishingcapecod.com. In this snippet, AJ Coots of Red Top Sporting Goods in Buzzards Bay joins this week's show. AJ gives us a first class Cape Cod Canal fishing report as the action down there was immense all last week. In addition, AJ gives us detailed reports on Buzzards Bay stripers, blues, sea bass, scup, and even fluke! Yes, AJ gives some great tips and ideas on how you can target fluke from shore or the bridges around Buzzards Bay and Onset.

MFCC Founder and Creator Ryan Collins joins us at the top of the show to announce that in celebration of Independence Day, this podcast will be available for download to the general public. Ryan also gives us details on the latest MFCC Group Trips, his latest trips for school blue fin, and stripers and blues at Provincetown. Next up, Bruno Demir of Cape & Islands Mitsubishi and Cape Codder Boats joins the podcast! Bruno has had an epic run of successfully targeting recreational blue fin tuna out east of Chatham. He provides his latest reports on offshore tuna, as well as stripers and bluefish in the rips at Monomoy. AJ Coots then joins the podcast to provide a detailed look at the Cape Cod Canal. AJ gives us tips for targeting big bass over the July 4th holiday and provides more information on Buzzards Bay stripers, scup, and sea bass as well. Lastly, Evan Eastman of Eastman's Sport & Tackle in Falmouth, MA joins the show! Evan has been fishing heavy in Vineyard Sound as well as from shore around the greater Falmouth area. His reports focus on striped bass and blue fish in Vineyard Sound, the Falmouth coastline as well as what he is hearing from his offshore customers regarding the blue fin bite. 

Welcome to Episode 5 of the My Fishing Cape Cod Podcast presented by Cape & Islands Mitsubishi and Cape Codder Boats! As usual, MFCC Founder & Creator, Ryan Collins joins us at the top of the program. Ryan provides a Cape & Islands wind and weather report for the upcoming weekend and a report from the MFCC striped bass and blue fish trips run by Cape Star Charters and Captain Cullen Lundholm. Next up, we get a LIVE report from the Monomoy rips from Bruno Demir of Cape & Islands Mitsubishi. Bruno is on the bite during the show! Reeling in slot and above slot sized striped bass while reporting to us live the conditions out at Monomoy. AJ Coots then joins the podcast to provide an extremely detailed Cape Cod Canal fishing report. With the breaking tides upcoming, hear what AJ thinks will occur down at the canal and what you need to know to be successful. We then welcome a first time podcast guest! Amy Wrightson of Sports Port joins the show to give us reports on sea bass, scup, stripers, and blue fish! Hear Amy's report and how to start targeting big gator blue fish from shore! Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://myfishingcapecod.supportingcast.fm

This episode begins with a chat with My Fishing Cape Cod Founder and Creator, Ryan Collins. Ryan provides an update of the latest meetup and long-distance casting competition, gives insight as to what's happening inside the MFCC forum, and looks ahead to this Saturday's Cheeky Fly Fishing Tournament. Next up, Captain Cullen Lundholm of Capestar Charters joins the show. Captain Cullen provides a detailed look at the hot striped bass fishery all over Cape Cod and looks ahead to Sea Bass & Tuna. We will then be joined by Bruno Demir of Cape & Islands Mitsubishi and Cape Codder Boats. Bruno provides some excellent information on stripers and flounder inside Cape Cod Bay, and looks ahead to Sea Bass in Nantucket Sound. Lastly, AJ Coots of Red Top Sporting Goods will join the show. AJ gives us detailed insights into big striped bass & tautog inside the Cape Cod Canal, plus a full Buzzards Bay Fishing Report. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://myfishingcapecod.supportingcast.fm

HOUR 2 Courtney gets confused by styrofoam and the Cape Cod Canal The news with Courtney Courtney gets confused about styrofoam Wiggy gets confused about the canal

After reports of over 70 North Atlantic right whales spottedfeeding in Cape Cod Bay this weekend, the Cape Cod Canal was shut down today as two more passed through. WBZ's Tim Dunn says these two whales attracted a lot of fans.

The project to replace the 90 year old Cape Cod canal bridges

On Mar. 9th, the Biden Administration released its budget request for Fiscal Year 2024, which includes $350 million for the Cape Cod Bridges Program. Pending congressional approval, this federal allocation represents a portion of the funding necessary to carry out the $4 billion project. The long-term program promises travel improvements throughout the Cape Cod Canal area and includes plans to replace both the Bourne and Sagamore bridges. 

Carl Johansen has been fishing the Cape Cod Canal since the 1950s, and has seen the fishery change dramatically over his lifetime. At 89 years young, Carl is a wealth of knowledge on Massachusetts fishing, and is a living example of how a passion for fishing can save your life. In this episode Carl shares his wisdom and wit with Andy and Kevin. This episode of the OTW Podcast is presented by Old Town Fishing. Check out their line of fishing kayaks. We've been using these for everything from small pond bass to big water albies and stripers, and they are stable, versatile fishing platforms, perfect for the Northeast.

How long ago did people think about digging a canal across Cape Cod? Who gets right of way every time they enter the canal? And what does the U.S. Army have to do with any of this? Hanna, Andy, and Fish dig into the history of the Cape Cod Canal. Intro music is from "Across the Line" by the Wellington Sea Shanty Society.

Police in Western Massachusetts have an identity for the 'Granby Girl', another close encounter at Logan and the Cape Cod Canal is open again after playing host to endangered whales. Five minutes of news that will keep you in “The Loop."

In today's report Ryan Collins of MFCC) tells us about the success he's having with tautog and black sea bass from his kayak. He also fills us in on the shore-based striper bite from the beaches and at the Cape Cod Canal. Ian Bragdon (Pro Staff Capt for The Goose Hummock) updates us on striped bass inside Cape Cod Bay & off the Backside Beaches. "Gator" blues are also still around, and freshwater bite is picking up! Ian finishes our convo by explaining differences and pros/cons of trolling vs casting for school blue fin when they are feeding on butter fish. Bruno Demir (MFCC member and owner of Cape & Islands Mitsubishi) gives his report on bluefin tuna east of Chatham. According to Bruno the Monomoy Rips are still red hot, and at times stripers have been in tight to shore feasting on peanut bunker. Bruno finishes with his cod and haddock Report. For the latest, please visit myfishingcapecod.com.

Bike Report… Here is a slightly more scripted version of my 2 day ride across Massachusetts.   I scheduled it as a 4-day adventure.  This is one of those things that you learn from doing long or hard or ultra-type events.  Give yourself some buffer time. I have always violated this rule.  Partly because my life has always been busy, or I have convinced myself that it was, and I had to rush to get to events and then rush back.  I have always tried to not be that guy who talks too much about this stuff at work.  I realized early on that this is my obsession, and the rest of the world may or may not give a shit.  I've been more than willing to talk about it in depth when asked, or in this purpose-built forum for that outlet, but I have always taken pains not to be THAT GUY in the office.  As a result, most of the people I've worked with know vaguely that I train all the time, but seldom have the gift of knowing exactly what or when I'm doing an event.  That vagueness allows work activity to crowd around the events and I find myself running a marathon in the morning and jumping on a plane in the afternoon.  I think it also fits that egoistic self-image I have had of being the indestructible man that can pop in and out of events that other people can't even fathom.  Even my acts of humility are ego-centric! There are advantages to not buffering time around an event.  If you show up just in time for the event it doesn't give you time to think too much about it.  You can get much more adventure in the day by not being prepared and not knowing the course, etc.  Just show up doesn't fit many peoples' brains but I enjoy the adventure of it.  If you jet off after the event you don't have time to wallow in your misery. But the disadvantages of this cramming in events, especially big events, are manifold.  You can make mistakes that you could have avoided by being just a bit more prepared.  Like, for instance, not thinking about how the temperature drops below freezing in the mountains at night.  And, most regretfully, you don't really get a chance to let it sink in.  Many of those races I've run are just blurry memories of a fast weekend spent somewhere doing something hard.  I've found that no matter how good shape you're in, a multi-day event will mess with your thinking ability.  It's best to take a day off after because you're going to be useless anyhow. For this ride, I took 4 days off to ride around 250 miles in 2 days.  I enlisted my wife to crew for me.  I suppose this is one of the advantages of having a long-term relationship.  You can just casually drop something like this… “Hey, take Friday and Monday off we're going out to Western Mass and you're going to follow me while I ride across the state for 2 days.” And that doesn't end the relationship.  … Day one was Friday.  We got up and I took Ollie down to the local kennel when it opened at 9AM.  This was Ollie's first time being kenneled – so it was a bit like first day of school for your kids.  I had a pang of sadness driving back to the house in my truck with the passenger seat empty.  I had done my best to make sure all my stuff was organized.  We drove out a pretty section of Rte 2 west into the Berkshires and the Mohawk Trail.  Western Mass is a pretty place.  All hills and farms and little; towns. Those same little towns that you'll find in Vermont or New Hampshire.  A bit of a tourist trap but really pretty without being entirely off the map. We took the new truck with my bike in the back. I prepped my bike earlier in the week.  I washed it and cleaned the chain and derailleurs as best I could.  It's a messy and dirty job.  It requires using a degreaser and a toothbrush.  Kids, this degreaser chemical is very dangerous.  Remember to wear rubber gloves and safety glasses when you're cleaning your bike chain.  Once you get it all sparkly clean then you can rub a little bike grease back into the chain and sprocket.  This really helps the efficiency of the drivetrain and keeps the shifting action clean.  You can ride on a dirty chain, but it will slow you down and eventually something will break. I wore my old Northface water backpack.  I think it holds more than a liter.  It has enough room to carry my tools and food and whatever else I need comfortably.  That old pack is like a second skin for me.  I've worn it in many, many ultras.  For tools I carry a small pump and a multitool.  In my underseat pack I carry an extra tube, levers and a patch kit.  I had one bike bottle in the cage on the bike for just water.  I actually found this bike bottle by the side of the road after the local triathlon.  It was perfectly new from one of the local bike shops.  You may think I'm crazy, and you'd be correct, but I washed it out and it's fine.  I prepped up enough 24 oz water bottles with Ucan for the ride and put those in a cooler with ice.  I made some protein smoothies too, for emergency meals, extra fuel if needed and recovery.  Smoothies are a good source of clean calories.  The 24 oz bottles of Ucan mix I stuck in the back of my bike shirt on both sides for the ride.  This provides clean fuel with some electrolytes. This sounds like a lot of stuff, but it was all the result of what I had learned in my training over the summer.  I knew I could get 4+ hours of hard work in the heat with that set up.  A liter or so of clean water in the pack.  A full bottle of water in the cage and 2 X 24oz bottles of fuel mix in my shirt.  That may sound uncomfortable to carry, but it really isn't bad on a bike.  You've got the mechanical advantage and can carry a lot of stuff comfortably.  I stopped at a grocery on the way out and bought a handful of Cliff bars and other packaged edibles.  I also had my favorite pitted dates in a baggy.  All this fuel went into the back pack.  Then there was the electronics. I decided to use Google Maps with the bike route option selected.  This meant I would have to have my phone with me, and it would have to stay charged.  This is a challenge because having the maps open for navigation all day long drains your phone battery very fast.  Especially when you're riding through the mountains in the middle of nowhere.  Yes, it also uses a ton of data.  If you don't have an unlimited plan, don't do this at home kids.  Where to put the phone?  While I was training, I started out putting the phone in a plastic bag in my backpack. But that is a pain in the ass because you have to stop and get it out of the pack to use it.  So I bought a fairly inexpensive handlebar mount for it.  It's basically a stretchy rubber cage that I attached right in the center of the handlebar.  In this set up the phone is inches from my face and easy to access. If it rains you can put the phone in a plastic bag before you put it into the holder.  That plastic bag makes it harder to use the touch screen, but for my ride both day were sunny, so I mounted it au naturel. Next question was how to keep power in the battery.  This worked out way better than I expected.  I bought a pair of those charging bricks from the internet.  I didn't know how long they would last.  I had a plan to swap the charge brick out for a fresh one if needed in the middle of the ride.  I put one in the under-seat pack with the cable running along the frame tube up to the phone.  At first, I thought I'd have to zip tie the phone cable in place, but I was able to snake the cable around the top tube in such a way that it was attached to the phone and the battery pack with no slack.  That worked great.  I didn't know if this pack would give me 30 minutes of juice or 30 hours of juice.  That's why I got two.  I figured I could hot swap them out when I met Yvonne during the ride.  But as it turns out I had nothing to fear.  Even burning all that data with the GPS and radio on the whole time the charge pack kept the phone at 100%.  To cap this all off I had my Mifo ear pods.  These are little, wireless ear pods, that I trained all summer in.  They fit snuggly in the ear and had both the stereo headphones and a microphone for talking. It was a great set up. I listened to podcasts and audio books all day.  I had my phone right in front of me so I could even skip commercials!  I could also make and receive phone calls without even slowing down.  And the Google maps lady was instructing me with turn-by-turn voice commands the whole time, so I wouldn't get lost.  It was awesome! Besides that, I wore normal bike Chamois shorts with underarmour sport undergarments.  I lathered up all the risky bits and my under carriage with Squirrel's Nut Butter.  I had this left over from my last ultra.  It works great as an under-carriage lube.  I also wore a knee sleeve on my left knee, which is the one that was giving me trouble.  I wore my Garmin 235 watch but did not use the chest strap.  I don't really need to know my heart rate with that much precision when I'm riding.  It never gets anywhere near max.  That was my set up.  Was I nervous?  No, not at all.  I was confident I could do it.  It wasn't that much of a stretch.  I was happy to be off on an adventure.  To be spending some time out of my home office with my wife.  Friday we got out to North Adams in the afternoon after a casual drive on a nice day.  We had a nice lunch.  We drove around North Adams, Williamstown and Williams college.  We had an early dinner and I set the alarm for 5:00 AM. … Saturday morning I got up with the alarm and made a cup of coffee.  The sun wasn't going to come up until closer to 6:00.  Making room-coffee in the dark I mistakenly had a cup of decaf before I realized my mistake.  I loaded up all my stuff and woke my wife up to drive me to the starting point.  … I'll cover the ride itself in a subsequent episode.  … Continuing with my bike report.  Let's pick it up at Day 1 of the ride. This is the one part of the ride that I had done some actual research on.  My original plan had been to find the marker for where Massachusetts, New York and Vermont touch in the western corner of Massachusetts.  But, on Googling the map I saw that the point was actually back in the woods a good distance with no real road access.  And it looked like the access trail was on the Vermont side which added significant miles to the trip. Given that I was riding my mountain bike I could probably find a way to make that work; but consulting the map again it would make the trip very long.   It would add some unknown trail miles right out of the gate and I didn't really think I'd have the time to go up and plot the route. To avoid that little bit of drama and the extra miles, I looked around the map to see what the closest town was to that point.  I discovered that Williamstown was right there in the upper corner and had a hotel I could use points at.  So, I booked that.  This was probably about a month out.  Then I started looking at potential bike routes.  I did this by using the bicycle option on Google maps.  It's a swell tool, Google maps.  If you choose the bicycle option it will keep you off the highways and find any available rail trails.  The first pass route, starting from the hotel was 256 miles, which seemed doable in 2 days.  Unfortunately Gooogle Maps also provides the elevation profile.  You have to understand that Massachusetts is relatively flat state.  We've got rolling hills.  Lots of rolling hills.  But we don't have any mountains.  Any real mountains.  As it turns out our tallest mountain is mount Greylock.  Mount Greylock is only 3489 feet tall.  As it also turns out Mount Greylock is in Adams Massachusetts.  Adams, as it turns out is just to the east of Williamstown.  I had, in my hubris created a route that had me climbing the highest point in the state first thing in the morning on the first day.  I have not doubt I could do it, but it caused some consideration.  I decided that it might be a good idea to start on the top of the mountain ridge.  Which, in fact would shave about 20 miles off the ride.  That seemed like a reasonable thing to do.  My race, my rules – as McGillvray always says. I really wanted to get out and drive some of the route, but did not really have the bandwidth.  An opportunity arose, like they sometimes do, when my running Buddy Frank suggested we go for a motorcycle ride one Friday afternoon a couple weeks before my scheduled ride.  I took him up on it.  On a brilliant August afternoon we rode the length of Route 2 out to North Adams and Williamstown.  I checked out the hotel.  We did a bit of poking around the towns.  My plan was to ride as much of the bike route as possible on the way back home.  Frank had to bail but I was able to trace the route up out of Adams on an old 2-lane highway, 8A. I knew that where 8A met 116 would be about the peak elevation and I rode to that point on my motore cycle. Let me tell you it was not an encouraging route.  It was a few thousand feet of steady climb, some of it quite steep, on roads with no shoulder.  Bad roads too,  beat to crap roads.  And in places the Google route actually routed me through some old hilltop farms on a dirt road, which was quite scenic and everything but not good for making time on a bicycle.  That reconnoiter of the climb up and out of Adams over the steepest, highest ridge in the state sealed the deal for me.  I made a mental note to have my wife drop me off at the high point. I mean it wasn't that I thought I couldn't do it, it just seemed unnecessary to the project.  If that climb had been in the middle of the ride, or even at the end, I would have been more optimistic about it. But given I was planning on a century a day, I didn't want to burn all my matches in the first hour.  … Going into the ride I had trained over the summer.  Basically 3-4 rides week with one of those being along ride on the Saturday.  I managed to get my long ride up to somewhere around 70-something miles.  I also got some good data on nutrition and fluid consumption, especially in the heat of the summer.  A couple of those long rides were really hot days  This is how I figured out that I could carry enough to get through 4-5 hours on a hot day before I needed a pit stop.  On a cool day I could ride all day on the same water and fuel.  Back to the route.  Since I was shanghaiing my wife into this adventure I thought I should at least consider making things palatable.  Looking at the possible routes and where we would end up at the end of the first day I realized that it was close to Foxboro, which of course is the home of the New England Patriots, who my wife loves.  And the Hotel at Patriot's Place, it turned out, was another I could use points at.  Now it was coming together.  Looking at the revised route, with the new start point and the planned end point, that gave me about 120ish miles for Day 1.  That seemed reasonable.  Next I had to figure out how long that would take me.  Since I was riding my mountain bike I wouldn't be able to go as fast.  I knew form my training I was averaging around 15 miles an hour.   Doing the math on that would give me a 8 hour day.  But, in training, I knew the routes and was pushing pretty hard.  I didn't want to push that hard on the ride, because I had a long way to go and didn't want to burn out.  If 15 was the top end guesstimate, what was the worst case?  I figured if I really got in trouble and slowed way down, I'd still be able to manage 10 miles an hour.  That would give me a 12 ish hour day.  Which was still within the daylight hours.  I definitely didn't want to be out on the roads exhausted in the dark.  I wasn't as concerned about the second day.  I knew that part of the ride was pretty flat and when I got onto Cape Cod I would know where I was.  I would be in familiar territory.  … On the morning I got all my stuff packed up and ready and loaded into the truck.  She wasn't super happy about being woken up at the crack of dawn from her comfy hotel bed to drive me to the drop off.  She got exceedingly less happy as we wound through the old farm roads and up the mountain.  Finally as she dropped me off I was bubbling with excitement.  I was nervous and happy and ready to roll. She was in a foul mood.  From her point of view, I had just driven her into the middle of nowhere and abandoned her.  I had to stop her and give her a speech.  Something like “Listen, your role here is to support me, not to bitch at me.”  Which seemed to bring her around. And I was off… It was cool, in the 60's and after 6:00 AM when I finally launched.  The first sections flew by.  Literally.  Because I had started on the top of the ridge there were these long downhills where I was probably holding 30 miles per hour for miles at a time without touching the pedals.  Of course what goes up must eventually come down and there were some good size climbs as well.  For those climbs I took it easy, stayed in the seat and used my gears to conserve energy.  My strategy on this first day was to not do anything stupid.  I had looked at the maps and tried to find some really obvious places for my wife to meet me.  I settled on a grocery store in North Hampton that was about 25 miles in and then another grocery store in Worcester about 77 miles in.  That would give me 3-4 hours of riding before each pit stop.  I wrote all the stop addresses and approximate distances and times out for her – which if you know me, is probably the most organized I've ever been for an event.  I usually just wing it. That first 25 miles was wonderful.  Lots of downhill, some interesting back roads.  The traffic was light.  I took it easy and enjoyed myself.  Pulling over when I needed to, pull over and staying hydrated.  The ear buds and the phone worked like a champ.  The phone stayed fully charged and the nice lady from Google was reading turn by turn directions into my ears.  I had my phone right in front of me on the handlebars and could sort through podcasts and fast forward when I needed to skip commercials.  This is where my first logistical mistake got me.  With my wife needing to go back to the hotel to check out, she couldn't catch me for the first stop.  I had just assumed that with me being out on the road for 8-12 hours she would be able to leisurely follow along and take side trips as she wanted and still have plenty of time to catch me.  But this first morning with here having to go back to the hotel and me flying down the hills there was no way she was going to make that 25 mile stop.  It was ok.  I had her on the phone through the earbuds, so we weren't lost or panicking, I was just going to need to push through.  I had my wallet and my phone with me, so I probably wasn't going to die. At the same time as this stop got aborted another wonderful thing happened.  I found the Norwottuck Rail trail that runs 11 miles from North Hampton through Amherst on a beautifully maintained trail.  Amherst is where the University of Massachusetts is.  The trail has a nice bridge over the Connecticut River.  It was a joy to be spinning along on a rail trail.  They even had porta-potties.  I stopped and ate some food and enjoyed myself immensely in this section.  It was now mid-morning.  And it was starting to heat up.  The next section through the hills towards Worcester was challenging.  Lots of construction.  Lots of hills.  More traffic and bigger roads without much tree cover.  The day peaked out around 95 degrees and sunny.  It was hot.  As I was grinding the hills in the heat I realized I wasn't going to have enough fluids to make it to the next stop.  I was losing too much sweat in the baking heat.  My energy was good but I was getting dehydrated.  With another 40-50 miles to ride and another long day coming I uncharacteristically pulled over to a gas-station convenience store.  I bought a liter of water and a Gatorade.  They were ice cold.  I drank all the Gatorade right there and it was mana from heaven.  My feet were falling asleep from all the climbing.  I was soaked with sweat.  My butt was sore.  Back on the bike feeling hot and tired and a little bit nauseous I cranked through the city hills to where my wife was waiting in the parking lot of a big grocery store.  I drank some more water, filled up my fluids and swapped out two more bottles of UCann.  I was beat.  I took my shoes off and let my feet air out a bit.  It was a welcome respite.  Knowing the evils of spending too much time in the aid station I bid her adieu and mounted back up for the final push of the day.  But, I did feel a bit refreshed.  The last chunk was a bit of a grind.  I had another 40-something miles to push.  At least the sun was starting to go down, but I was worn out.  Two things happened that made the day longer.  The first one was I lost one of my earbuds.  I was screaming down a hill and felt it coming loose.  I tried to grab it with one hand.  I thought I had caught it and trapped it in my shirt.  But I couldn't brake with one hand .  By the time I was able to slow down and stop it was gone.  I dis a desultory search along the length of the shoulder of the road on the hill, but it was gone.  It wasn't a total loss.  I still had the left one and could still here the navigation and everything else.  It actually was kind of nice because with only one I could hear the noises around me better.  The second thing was a detour.  I was watching the map click down.  I knew I was under 20 miles form my destination.  All of a sudden the road was blocked!  There was a detour.  And as I followed the detour, of course the map was screaming at me.  So I had to stop and zoom in and out and see how to backtrack around the detour to get back on route.  It ended up adding 6+ miles to the day.  Which doesn't sound like a lot, but it happened right towards the end for maximum emotional impact! Finally, as I was turning into the back parking lot of Patriot's Place in Foxboro, I heard a noise.  That noise was the loud leaking of a punctured rear tire.  That's right.  Less than a mile away from the hotel I picked up something in the back tire.  I road it until it went flat and called my wife.  And I called it a day. I was tired, sore and hot.  There was no way I was going to change a flat tire by the side of the road for the priviledge of riding ½ mile to the hotel.  I stopped the Garmin at 127.78 miles, 10:03 total time for an average speed of 12.7 Miles per hour. Yvonne came and rescued me.  We took some pictures.  I cleaned up.  We went out for dinner in Patriots place – Pizza and beer.  I slept well, wondering what it would be like to get back on the bikein the morning for another full day of riding. Outro…  So that's where I'll leave it.  I'll pick up on Day 2 in the next episode.  To take you out I'll give you an update on where I'm at.  Right now I'm freezing. It got cold today.  It's the first day of autumn here in New England.  I'm a cold weather guy, but it takes a few weeks for your body to adapt.  And it's dark when I get up in the morning.  Winter is coming! Fitness-wise I still tread the crooked path.  I started a body-building campaign 3 weeks ago, on the first of September.  It was going great.  Really was.  I felt strong.  My balance felt good.  My legs had some bounce in them.  I would recommend this beginner body building program. A question you might ask is what's the difference between weightlifting and body building.  That's a good question.  Both involve lifting weights.  Body building is lifting weight to shape the muscles.  Which I didn't really get until I started doing this program.  Think about it like shading in a picture that makes a feature stand out.  Body building is weightlifting for muscle growth in specific places.  Which, on my old body, doesn't' make a hill ‘o beans of difference, but it's kinda fun to see the muscles changing shape in a very short period of time due to this focus.  Kinda fun. But that fun came to an abrupt end last Friday when I was pulling a dumbbell off the rack at an odd angle and threw out my back.  I know you're getting that schadenfreude felling, aren't you?  You thinking, “I know that idiot was going to over-do it and hurt himself.” Yup.  I'm that idiot.  But in my defense I wasn't actually doing a weightlifting exercise at the time, I was pulling the weights off the rack.  So at least a week off.  Couldn't straighten up for a couple days.  Lots of pain.  A trip to the chiropractor, who by the way is on a first name basis with me.  What does it say about us that our doctors are always excited and happy to see us? Speaking of which my physical bloodwork didn't turn up anything awful but…  But… They did add a note to tell me that my cholesterol doubled in the last year.  Not running + shitty diet = bad cholesterol.  I immediately went on a plant-based diet.  I needed to anyhow.  I was just too have and it's not healthy. My plan is to restart my body building next week.  To take it back to day 1, because I was only 2 weeks in, and lower the weight, focus on the form.  At the same time the Dr. wants me back in 90 days to check that cholesterol.  I will eat plant-based until then and most-likely lose 15-20 pounds in the process. And next week, drum roll please, I meet with the knee Doctor.  Maybe he'll have some new ideas.  I tell you what, this cool weather makes me want to head out into the woods on a run.  If all those things come together just right … I might end up being a mediocre old guy. I'll take it.  As we say it's all frosting on the cake at this point. The warranty has expired and there's no expectations except opening your eyes and smiling in the morning.  Smile baby, And I'll see you out there. … Day 3… Hello again friends.  Let's wrap this race report up.  If you haven't been following along, this is the third in a series of recaps for the 250 bike ride I did this summer across Massachusetts.  I budgeted 4 days for the trip with 2 days of riding bracketed by a day of buffer on both ends. This is Day 3 of the trip and Day 2 of the ride. As I recapped last time Day 1 of the ride from Savoy Mass to Patriots Place in Foxboro ended up being 127.7 miles based on my Garmin.  It was a challenging hot day through the back roads and hill towns of western Mass that took me just over 10 hours.  I did not stop my Garmin at any point, so that 10:15 includes all the breaks.  I have learned that whenever I stop my watch at a break I inevitably forget to turn it back on.  I hit a detour and had a flat at the end that slowed me down a bit as well.  After dinner on Saturday night I changed the tire and tube of the flat.  I had 2 extra brand new tires with me.  As I have recounted earlier, I was riding my Mountain Bike.  I bought some small block tires with a less aggressive tread.  These were not road tires, per se, but they were closer to road tires.  But by the time I got to this ride they had worn significantly from all the road training.  Especially the rear tire, where I picked up the flat.  I decided to swap out the whole tire and tube for new.  Partly because it was easier than monkeying around with the old stuff, partly because it was time.  I left the front old front tire on.  It was in better shape and I didn't see a need to do the work in my tired state or to introduce more variables at that point. I cleaned up the bike a bit.  Put some more lube on the chain, got all my gear ready to go for the next morning, set the alarm and slept like a rock.  Both of the hotels we got for this trip were newer properties and really nice.  No problems at all.  Nobody gave me a hard time dragging my dirty, smelly self and my big bike through the hotel.  As a matter of fact, there was a wedding going on at the Patriots Place hotel and my wife saw Rick Hoyt. I did not go in and say ‘hi' but apparently one of the Hoyt clan was having a wedding reception in the hotel. Day two I had about 120 miles on the plan.  My first pit-stop planned was at a Starbucks 40 miles in to meet Yvonne.  I had scheduled 3 stops into this day thinking that I might need them.  I'd need to get across southeastern Mass from Foxboro to the Cape Cod Canal.  I'd need to get over the Canal.  From there I would find my way over to the start of the Cape Cod Rail Trail that runs from Yarmouth all the way up to Wellfleet, where I'd meet my wife again and have just a short push up top Provincetown to the end.  When I got up in the morning it was cool and foggy.  I felt good.  Part of the unknown about this trip was how it would feel to get back on the bike on that second day.  Turns out it felt fine.  On this day Yvonne didn't have to get up to drive me anywhere, I departed from the hotel and made my way out through the parking areas of Gillette Stadium to get back on route.  I had the same set up with my phone mounted on the center of the handlebars and wired into a battery pack under the seat.  I had my one remaining left ear pod in with the nice Google Maps lady giving me the turn by turns.  I had purchased an audio book for the ride called “Team of Rivals' about Abraham Lincoln's presidency and cabinet.  There I was peddling easy in the cool morning mist through the back roads of southeastern Mass learning all about Salmon Chase and Edward Stanton.  Fascinating stuff. The geography of southeastern Mass is different from the northern and western parts of the state.  It's mostly flat and near the coast.  There are cranberry bogs and small cites.  I rode through Bridgewater in the early part of the day which is a, how shall we say, ‘working class' part of the state.  I got yelled at for jumping a 4-way-stop.  And he was right.  We Massholes are very particular about some things, 4-way-stop rules being one of them.  There was a fair amount of road construction in this section where I had to deal with the sticky new road and the prepped, grated gravel.  Some of the back roads were a bit beat up.  My legs felt fine.  I was able to keep my nutrition going fine.  My butt and feet were okay.  All systems go.  Answering that question of ‘how would that second day feel?'  I felt fine.  I was also able to spend more time in the aero position which helped me relax. I met up with Yvonne at a Starbucks in Wareham.  She managed to get there ahead of me!  I fueled up and had her order me an iced coffee.  She came out with a hot coffee, which was fine, but I just got off the bike from riding 40 miles and really wanted an ice coffee.  After much waiting on the Starbucks brain-trust, I finally got my iced coffee, but I wanted to get going so I put it into one of my bike bottles which was an awesome treat as a rode the next few miles. As I got closer to the canal I was on some busy roads through Wareham and had to pay attention to not get run over by tourists.  The next big unknown for me was how I was going to navigate the canal.  Google maps seemed to think it was possible.  I would find out.  The Cape Cod Canal is a waterway that cuts straight across the base of the arm of Cape Cod from south to north.  It was created 100 years ago so that ships wouldn't have to go all the way around Cape Cod the long way.  It is about 17 miles long running from Buzzards Bay in the south up to Cape Cod Bay in the north.  For the purpose of our narrative the canal cuts right across our route.  We have to get over it.  There are two big Army Corps of Engineer bridges over the canal.  The Bourne and the Sagamore.  These are old-style high bridges to allow ship traffic to go under them.  They are two narrow, highspeed lanes in each direction with a high sidewalk on one side.  They were not designed for bicycle traffic. Back to the story.  Again the Google Maps did a great job of finding rail trails for me to follow.  It popped me out on the southern end of the canal and onto the canal trail.  This was another one of those cool discoveries for me.  It turns out there is a beautifully maintained bike trail that runs the length of the canal on both sides.  This was about 50 miles into the second day, and it was late morning by the time I hit the canal trail.  It was a gorgeous, sunny day.  Lots of people and families were out on the trail.  It routed me up the west side of the canal under the Bourne Bridge and all the way up to the Sagamore, where, apparently I'd be making that crossing. I had to get across one busy road to circle around the back and up onto the raised sidewalk of the bridge.  This sidewalk is raised up above the road surface by a tall granite curb.  There is no railing. So you are a couple short feet away from the screaming metal hellscape of 4 narrow lanes of highspeed traffic.  The signs said to walk your bike.  I did not.  But I did stop at the apex of the bridge arch to take a video with the boats way down below in the peaceful canal.  One funny thing was that the sidewalk was covered with pennies and other coins.  As far as I could determine people were throwing coins out the window of their cars over the sidewalk and railing into the canal.  Like a big wishing well, I guess.  I think this custom goes back to the Romans paying tribute to the water gods.  The pennies that didn't make it over the railing gathered up on the raised sidewalk.  I wonder if there's a notice for boats in the canal to be wary of high-velocity coinfall? Once I got over the bridge it was a quick button-hook back down to the canal trail on the other side.  It was starting to get hot again, but the trial was beautiful, paved, wide, and of course porta-potties! Yay.   The next bit of road was the dicey-est part of this day's ride.  After I got off the rail trail I had to navigate Rte. 6A which is an old, windy, narrow highway with no shoulder and a lot of disappearing shoulder that dropped off into sandy nothingness. I met Yvonne again at another coffee shop around 70 miles in and was in very good spirits.  The ride was going well.  I felt fine.  And I now knew everything there was to know about 19th century American politics. AND I was about to get on the Cape Cod Rail Trail which was home territory for me.  This 25 mile stretch of paved rail trail was where I had been training all summer.  Or at least on those weekends when I was down at my house in Harwich.  But, I had to get over to the rail trail in Yarmouth from the coffee shop on 6A where I met Yvonne.  This ended up being harder than I thought.  First I had to deal with 6A again and then I had to cut across the ‘Arm' of the Cape from north-ish to south-ish to pick up the trail.  One thing most people don't know about Cape Cod is that it is quite hilly in the interior.  Not hilly like Colorado or even like where I live but lots of pesky little rolling hills.  And finally it turns out Google Maps is confused about where the western trailhead for the trail is.  The maps routed me to the middle of nowhere with no trails in sight.  Luckily I knew generally where I was and was able to route to a landmark next to where I knew there was a trailhead in Dennis.  But, it wasted a lot of time and energy.  Once on the trail I was on easy street for a couple hours.  It was still a hot day but the trail has great cover and it's easy going.  Which was good because I was into the 90's mile-wise and was starting to feel the cumulative tiredness of riding for two days straight.  The next and last stop was at the Wellfleet trailhead at the north end of the trail.  This would put me about 100 miles in and just a short push up to P-town.  What happens here is that the rail trail ends and you have to get back on the roads to get the final bit up.  This was probably the low point of my ride, if there was a low ride.  I was pretty tired and looking forward to the end.  As I pulled in and met Yvonne she somehow was under the impression that this was were I was going to stop.  She got mad when I told her, no, I'm going up to P-town.  Not a great point in the journey to get in a fight with your crew.  She went off in a huff.  I climbed back on and cranked my tired legs up 6A again towards the end.  You can use back roads to kind-of zigzag around rte. 6A at this point but I was too tired to mess with it and mostly stuck to the big road.  Which sucked.  It was hilly and trafficky with no cover and my legs were trashed.  In this section I was battling a bit. Finally I got onto the access road that runs along the bay up into the town.  This was a pretty, flat section with the ocean on your left.   It's funny how the big miles at the beginning of the ride seem to fly by but those last few seem to take forever.  It was here that I walked a hill.  What happened was, I was coming down a slight hill into an intersection with the intention of using my momentum to get up the other side, but a car cut me off and I had to come to a complete stop.  I couldn't convince my trashed legs to grind up the other side, so I took a break and pushed the bike for a little bit.  Before long I was getting into Provincetown proper.  Now, one thing I had not thought about was how difficult it would be to get through the center of P-Town on a Sunday afternoon.  P-Town in August is a bit like Carnival.  It's a 200 year old fishing village that has thousands of party-ers dumped into it.  Tiny roads filled with stop and go cars, tourists, scooters, it was Bedlam.  And here I am, fairly wobbly on my big mountain bike trying to navigate it all without crashing.  And then I was turning out onto Macmillan Pier.  I rode all the way out to the end and hit stop on the watch at 123.73 miles and 10:15 for an average pace of 12.1 MPH including all the stops.  My wife called me, which was good because I thought she may have abandoned the project and gone home.  In fairness to her it was a pretty big ask, and probably not the best use of her weekend. She wasn't able to get into the downtown and was idling at a parking lot a few blocks away.  I got some bonus miles riding over to her.  We threw the bike in the back and took off back down the Cape to Harwich where our house is.  All-in-all I was pretty pleased with myself and the ride.  In terms of difficulty, it really wasn't that hard, but it was the right adventure for me at this point in my journey.  We stopped at our house just long enough to shower and change and got back on the road.  Yvonne was sick of travel and wanted to get home.  I wouldn't need that 4th buffer day after all. Turns out we got turned around trying to short cut across the suburbs back home, but we got there eventually.  And we slept in our own bed that night. The next day I felt fine.  No hangover at all from the riding.  I could have easily gotten back on the bike for another day.  I did have some saddle burn that took a week or so to heal up.  Overall, I find bike riding to be easy in the endurance sense.  My heart rate stays low, even in these long, hot, back-to-back rides.  It's a good workout, but it's never hard.  I never felt like I was at the edge.  Maybe that's what I need at this point in my life?  Who knows.  So that's it.  Two days, 250 miles.  127.7 in 10:03 on the first day and a slower 124.73 in 10:14 on the second day.  Found some new trails.  Had an adventure. … So what's going with me?  Well, it's taken much longer to get over throwing my back out than I would have liked.  I tried to restart the weightlifting last week but it was too soon, so I'm taking this week off as well. I'm feeling quite sad and broken around this latest setback.  Not being able to do something, anything to stay fit, makes me squirmy.  I suppose it's another good lesson in resilience, but who among us takes their foul-tasting medicine well?  My company shut down travel for the rest of the year which means I've been trapped in my home office looking at the walls far too much.  I feel a bit like a recluse.  Without the daily run or the daily workout it makes the walls close in.  I guess it's time for me to take up some new hobbies, like competitive lawn bowling or pickleball.  It's all very confusing and transitional for me to be sliding into my 60th birthday on this dust ball not knowing what the future holds.  I had my follow up appointment with the knee Dr. and he was not very encouraging.  I've got an MRI tomorrow and then a follow up.  I really miss running on these cool fall days.  Ollie-Wollie the killer collie is doing fine.  We get out for our walk everyday.  He's 3.5 now and getting much less crazy everyday.  I've got no races or projects on the calendar except the Mill Cities Relay in December.  I am planning on restarting the body building campaign as soon as my back lets me.  And, depending on what the MRI reveals maybe I can work some light running in over the winter.  … At this point I guess I have to tell a story.  My company requires us to use two volunteer days a year.  On the surface this is a great thing.  In reality it's hard for me to find and plan something important to volunteer for during the work week.  I have friends that work at homeless shelters or habitat for humanity and all sorts of other charities, but for some reason I find it hard to coordinate with official charities.  Last year I used my two volunteer days doing trail maintenance in the local trails that I run.  Basically I hiked the trails, picked up trash and cut/moved deadfall.  I always discover that I have to use these days about this time of year when time is running out.  This year I decided to take a Friday off and pick up trash on the roads around my house.  I figured I could clean up those roads that I used to run every day.  It always bothers me to see the trash along our beautiful New England roads.  I don't understand why people can't just keep it in their cars until they get where they are going?   So, last Friday I took a volunteer day.  It was a bit harder than it should have been because my back was still really sore and I couldn't bend over or lift very well, but a deals a deal.  I went to a section of road near my house which is part of a 5-mile route I've run 1,000 times.  It's an old road.  In this section I targeted, it runs flat through a swampy area and there are no houses. With the dry weather this summer the water table is low, and thus more of the swampy parts are accessible.  I drove my truck over there and parked about midway in the section.  I took out a couple big black plastic trash-can liner bags and got to work. It felt a bit strange being by myself out walking and picking up trash on a Friday during the day.  I didn't know if maybe someone would report my ‘strange behavior' to the local authorities who would come and chase me off for not having the proper permits or something.  I began filling my bag with cans and bottles and bags and wrappers that I could get to.  It was maybe a ¼ mile stretch.  I stayed off the shoulder as much as I could to stay out of the road and away from cars.  There isn't that much traffic here, but it's an old road with narrow shoulders and I didn't want to cause anyone to swerve.  When I got to the end of the road I crossed over and turned around to walk the other side.  A strange thing happened when I was midway down the other side.  A passing car slowed down and pulled over.  The driver rolled down his passenger window to talk to me.  “Here we go!” I thought to myself.  I've offended someone or something.  The guy leans over from his driver side and shouts out the window at me, very earnestly, “Thank you!  Thank you for what your doing!”  He was incredibly earnest.  Apparently somehow moved by me dragging a trash bag of beer cans down the road. He may have said some other praiseworthy things before driving off.  Frankly I had my (one) headphone in and was listening to a compelling science fiction story.  I really didn't know how to respond.  I guess I probably smiled and nodded my head in acknowledgement.  I finished up that side of the road and completed the circuit back up the other side to my truck.  Collecting two bags of miscellaneous cast-off refuse.  When I sorted it out the next day, I found that the majority was recyclable.  I even got some money for returning the cans and bottles.   The lesson here is that you think that what you are doing is a small and, maybe, even a meaningless act in the grand scheme of things.  I wasn't feeding the hungry or helping the homeless or solving world peace.  But, what I did on that day, that small action, apparently had a large impact on a fellow traveler.  I always use the metaphor of ripples in a pond.  Every act we take, no matter how small, crates ripples that spread out in ways unknown to us.  Make that act an act of kindness and it will spread kindness.  Make that act an act of helpfulness and it will propagate helpfulness.  Even small actions change the world. Thanks for staying with me on this bike narrative thing and I hope you enjoyed the narrative. With any luck I'll see you out there. Chris,    

IAR, Jeff Perry, JD, is joined by President and CEO of the Cape Cod Canal Region Chamber of Commerce, Marie Oliva. They discuss business conditions on Cape Cod as Marie characterizes prominent industries for the economy. They talk about challenges the Cape faces, recommend existing resources for small businesses and explain the Chamber's role in the community. Jeff Perry, JD, dives into estate plans, covering what they are, their benefits and the downfalls of not having one. He emphasizes creating a stable life for your family through estate planning, describing what power of attorneys, healthcare proxies and living wills are.

Episode 44 begins by going back more than a century to the story of the creation of the Cape Cod Canal, more specifically the three original bridges that spanned across it.  Whatever happened to them?This week's Road Trip takes us to the city of Lynchburg, Virginia.  Chock full of culture, waterfront scenery, an historic marketplace and more this will surely leaving you itching to pay the city a visit.We go way Back In the Day to 30 years ago and the release of Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES.  This football classic changed what sports simulation games meant.  The only question was did you play as Bo Jackson's Raiders, or Lawrence Taylor's Giants?A brand new Top 5 showcases some of the best Maine towns.  From the coast to inland, from south to north, big cities to small towns, check out which made this list and then go and see them for yourself.There's a new installment of This Week In History and a Time Capsule all surrounding the creation of the legend of children's television, Sesame Street.Be sure to watch for my livestreams called Without A Map Friday's at 8pm on Instagram which serve as a sort of postgame show for the podcast. Find them on IGTV and YouTube after they've finished.Helpful Links from this Episode(available through Buzzsprout)Purchase Iconic Hotels and Motels of Cape CodWear Your WishDJ Williams MusicLynchburg TourismVisit Maine.comDigital Commonwealth.orgChristopher Setterlund's YouTube ChannelChristopher Setterlund.comListen to Episode 43 here.Support the show

While the oldest kids are off at summer camp, Dom and Melanie lear nwhat it's like to have only two kids again; go camping themselves; make grilled Korean short ribs; read books about burgers and about rebels and Redcoats; and discuss radical trust in God. The post Exploring Cape Cod Canal appeared first on SQPN.com.

Early photo of Bass River Lighthouse, Massachusetts (National Archives) Congress appropriated $4,000 for a lighthouse near the mouth of the Bass River on Cape Cod in 1850. Oxen hauled building materials across the local marshes, and the Bass River Light went into service on April 30, 1855. The government deemed the lighthouse unnecessary after the advent of the Cape Cod Canal and a new automatic light was established on the Bass River west jetty at the entrance to the river. The light was extinguished in 1914 and the property was soon sold at auction. The Lighthouse Inn, formerly Bass River Lighthouse, in West Dennis, Massachusetts. Photo by Jeremy D'Entremont. The third and fourth generations of the Stone family involved with the operation of the Lighthouse Inn. Greg Stone is at the far right. In 1938, the property was bought by State Senator Everett Stone and his wife, Gladys. The Stones began to have overnight guests, and their hospitality became so popular that they soon opened it to the public as the Lighthouse Inn. Bob and Mary Stone managed the Inn for many years. In 1989 the Stone family had their lighthouse relighted as a seasonal aid to navigation, with a 300-millimeter optic providing a white light that flashes every six seconds. Members of the Stone family remain involved with the inn's operation today. Bob and Mary's son Greg is president, and his wife, Patricia, is the general manager. Ralph Krugler is the historian for the Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society in Florida. He's spent several years researching the history of the light station and he's put together an extensive book on the subject. Volume one is now available, and he also has a new children's book called Let's Visit the Lighthouse. Listen to the podcast using this player:

At mile 16, adult Nikki runs by the ocean while twenty-five-year-old Nikki celebrates her twenty-third birthday and gets a letter from her father before bumping into him on the Cape Cod Canal.  This episode is narrated by Nikki MacCallum and features Dina Laura (Mom), Patrick McCartney (Dad), Anne Nathan (Aunt Moira), Kristen Cook (Charlotte), and Cooper Grodin (Uncle Dale). 

Good Night Cape Cod:This story includes lighthouses, cranberry bogs, whale watches, lobsters, scenic landmarks, and ocean wildlife such as the Cape Cod Canal and bridges, herring runs, fishermen, ferryboats, beaches, Barnstable County Fair, Cape Cod clam bakes, seals, kettle ponds, peeper frogs, and more.https://www.amazon.com/Good-Night-Cape-Cod-World/dp/1602190046/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=good+night+cape+cod&qid=1628761367&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyUVNGV0RLQTRRR0I1JmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUE2VEJaM0pKUjZVS1YmZW5jcnlwdGVkQWRJZD1BMTAzNTc2NzE5U0RKVlYzQUgzTlkmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVlLove You Forever:A young woman holds her newborn sonAnd looks at him lovingly.Softly she sings to him:"I'll love you foreverI'll like you for alwaysAs long as I'm livingMy baby you'll be."https://www.amazon.com/Love-You-Forever-Robert-Munsch/dp/0920668372/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2O5E32XI76G69&dchild=1&keywords=love+you+forever+robert+munsch&qid=1628761589&sprefix=love+you+forever+robert+%2Caps%2C192&sr=8-1Storybook Bundles PodcastOn Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and moreStorybook Bundles & Let's Read Social Media Links:https://storybookbundlespodcast.buzzsprout.comStorybook Bundles Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/storybookbundlesStorybook Bundles Instagram Page:https://www.instagram.com/storybookbundles/Let's Read YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjo2n2aYTFY-kSlVeWputjQLet's Read Twitter Pagehttps://twitter.com/EdisonRagsdalepatreon.com/mystorybookbundlescurlyblue productionsletsread415@gmail.com#storybookbundlesDo You Need A Narrator For Children's Storybooks?If you have a Children's Short Storybook that you'd like me to do an audio narration, you can contact me regarding plans, and pricing. Use Storybook Bundles on Facebook Messenger, or email: letsread415@gmail.com.At this time I am only accepting Storybooks for ages 0-3, and NO more than 300 words long.Thank you,EGR If You like the Storybook Bundles Podcast, please Like, Follow, Subscribe, and even share it with family and friends.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/mystorybookbundles)

The findings of the Cape Rail Study were released last week and the study considered commuter rail service to Buzzards Bay and looked at service over the Cape Cod Canal and further into Bourne.

In this week's podcast you'll hear from Ryan of MFCC, Phil Howarth of the Goose Hummock, Matt Reinemo of Nantucket, Abbie Schuster of Martha's Vineyard, and MFCC member Bruno Demir. From striped bass to scup, black sea bass to haddock, this podcast will be a great listen for anyone hoping to do some fishing this week in the waters surrounding the Cape & the Islands. To get immediate access to these podcasts as soon as we publish them, please consider joining as a member (if you haven't already). For a quick overview of the guests and what is discussed in today's podcast, please scroll below. MFCC founder Ryan Collins reports that quite a few members from My Fishing Cape Cod are scoring stripers inside the Cape Cod Canal.  Fishing for porgies (scup) in Buzzard's Bay has been terrific, and black sea bass season opens soon. Second in today's lineup is captain Phil Howarth - owner of the Goose Hummock Shop in Orleans. According to Phil, there are plenty of schoolie stripers arriving on the Lower and Outer Cape. Flounder fishing in Cape Cod Bay is also heating up.  Rumors of bluefin tuna are also flying around, and Phil is very hopeful for a good start to the 2021 tuna fishing season. Next in today's podcast is MFCC member Bruno Demir of Cape & Islands Mitsubishi. When we spoke with Bruno he was live on the water fishing out in Nantucket Sound. Bruno reports that there are plenty of "hub cap" size porgies off the southern coast of Cape Cod. Haddock are also being caught to the west of Stellwagen Bank. Next up is captain Matt Reinemo of Nantucket Tackle Center. According to Matt, stripers are being caught on Nantucket, however the size of the fish is lagging behind the Cape.  Matt goes on to recommend some places around the island worth fishing if you're looking to catch your first striper of the year. Matt also provides us with a rundown of the other species and fishing opportunities available right now on Nantucket, including freshwater fishing. Wrapping up today's show is Abbie Schuster of Kismet Outfitters on Martha's Vineyard.  Abbie has been guiding this week and she's been catching stripers on the fly. In our conversation she provides plenty of helpful tips for anyone looking to catch their first Martha's Vineyard striper of the year. Mackerel and other species are also arriving on the island. The freshwater fishing is still plenty good too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The spring migration of striped bass is about 3 weeks away from reaching Cape Cod. Fishing for squid, haddock and tautog will also heat up as we progress into the month of April. This podcast was recorded on April 9th, and in this show you'll get fishing reports from Ryan Collins, MFCC members Bruno Demir and John Figmic, and Erik Wisniewski from the Goose Hummock Shops. Our next fishing report podcast will be two weeks from today, but once the Cape Cod  saltwater fishing season really gets going we will plan on publishing these fishing reports and podcasts weekly. We're also working to include a wide array of guests to help provide fishing reports for more areas around Cape Cod and the Islands. We will keep you posted on developments. When we talked with MFCC founder Ryan Collins, he was freshwater fishing at a pond in Bourne. Ryan was also recently at the Bournedale herring run, but so far he's yet to see any big schools of herring there. In addition, there's been plenty of giveaways happening on My Fishing Cape Cod, and Ryan gives us all the details in our conversation. Details about the May 8th long-distance casting competition as well as the October 2nd team surfcasting tournament re also discussed. Ryan goes on to summarize some of the top recent catches from the MFCC community, which includes fishing for white perch, trout and shellfishing.  According to Ryan, squid ought to arrive by the end of April, and if this spring is anything like last spring, then schoolie stripers will show up in Buzzard's Bay around the same time. Second in today's lineup is Bruno Demir - My Fishing Cape Cod member and owner of Cape & Islands Mitsubishi. Last week Bruno stopped by the Stony Brook herring run in Brewster and was greeted by dozens of sea gulls and some nice schools of river herring. Bruno also thinks some anglers have already been out targeting winter flounder with sea worms. Another species which Bruno is hoping to target this spring are haddock. Haddock are wonderful eating, and they are already being caught just north of the Cape. According to Bruno, anchoring up and fishing fresh clams is a good bet. Third in today's lineup is John Figmic, resident of Sandwich and a member of My Fishing Cape Cod. So far this spring John has been chasing trout at the Cape's kettle ponds, and he's also been out digging clams and oysters. During the season, John splits his time between fishing the beach and fishing the Cape Cod Canal. Right now John thinks we'll start seeing herring in the Bournedale run very soon, but he hasn't seen any in earnest yet. John thinks that maybe another week or 10 days and the herring run will get going. We finish up today's podcast with a conversation with Erik Wisniewski of the Goose Hummock Shops in Orleans.  Freshwater fishing has been on fire according to Erik, with anglers finding plenty of opportunities for largemouths, smallmouths and trout.  In addition, Erik provides us with a river herring report, as well as a schoolie striped bass forecast. 

In today’s episode, we will explore the destination of Marion, Massachusetts. Marion is located in Sippican Harbor which is off of Buzzards Bay. If you haven’t sailed Buzzards Bay, put it on your bucket list. Marion and the Beverly Yacht Club are located a short sail off of Buzzards Bay in Sippican Harbor. If you are transiting through the Cape Cod Canal, it’s a very convenient stopover. If you’re a sailor, you may have heard of Marion, as it is the start of the Marion to Bermuda race. The Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race is held in odd-numbered years, from Marion, Massachusetts to the island of Bermuda, a distance of 645 nautical miles One of the highlights of this trip was getting a mooring right next to Tabor Boy, a ninety-two foot, gaff-rigged, two-masted schooner. Check out the links below. Beverly Yacht Club Marion to Bermuda Race Tabor Boy Marion MA We also have another podcast, with over 100 episodes titled, The Unconventional Path: Entrepreneurship and Innovations Stories with Bela and Mike. Feel free to check it out. We love to hear from our listeners, send us your questions, comments, and suggestions at sailingtheeast@gmail Wishing you fair winds, and calm seas. Bela and Mike --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bela-l-musits/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bela-l-musits/support

The AMR team talks about unemployment claims and the next virus aid package. State Representative Randy Hunt discusses plans for building new Cape Cod bridges. See the “MassDOTs Study on Cape Cod Canal” - http://randyhuntcpa.com/docs/CanalBridgeStudyTwoPageSummary2020.pdf.

Listen to this week's Cape Cod Fishing Report with Ryan Collins of My Fishing Cape Cod, Phil Howarth of the Goose Hummock Shops and Bruno Demir of Cape & Islands Mitsubishi. Get access to the latest updates and reports for striped bass fishing, fluke fishing, bluefin tuna fishing, fishing the Cape Cod Canal and more. 

Pesto and Tirsty talk about deer, the Super Slam, the Cape Cod Canal and striped bass. Give us a listen. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/peter-tonelli/support

In the late nineteenth century, Nantucket Sound, located in between the major ports of New York and Boston, was one of the most heavily trafficked marine highways in the country. Before the construction of the Cape Cod Canal in 1916, thousands of sailing vessels, every year, bound on coastal and transatlantic routes had one of two navigational decisions to make. Take the longer, more exposed, ocean route south of Nantucket and around the dangerous south shoals, or take the shorter, relatively more sheltered passage through Nantucket Sound. Many vessels, especially those plying the northeastern coastal trade, chose the latter. However, the sound is not without considerable hazards to navigation. The treacherous Muskeget channel, Tuckernuck and Muskeget Shoals, and the Nantucket Bar lie to the west and the south of the sound, while to the east there sits a narrow passage between the Great Point of Nantucket and Monomoy Island off the southeast elbow of Cape Cod. All around this channel is a veritable maze of shoals, rips and sandbars which have seen many a shipwreck over the centuries. The greatest threat to mariners occurred during the winter and early spring season when violet storms blowing in a northerly direction arrived with little notice, catching ships off guard, and running them aground on the shoals and rips. Ships could be broken up in a matter of days or even hours in the pounding surf, with sailors facing great risk to life and limb because of the cold water end extreme weather. Many had only to cling to the rigging, pray and wait for the life saving crews from Nantucket to take action and come to their rescue. Such was the case in late March during the Great Gale of 1879, when 11 shipwrecks occurred around the Island, and the bravery of Nantucket’s volunteer lifesavers would be put to the ultimate test. Source:Stackpole, Edouard: "Life Saving Nantucket," Stern-Majestic Press; 1972. p. 144-148Music and Narration: Performed, Produced and Edited by Evan Schwanfelder.Special Thanks to Katie Schwanfelder for all your help and for joining the discussion

You heard about the very 1st part of our Cape Cod striper fishing adventure back on episode 82 of the podcast where the group ventured out into a Nor'easter to fish the Cape Cod Canal... This week we're taking you behind-the-scenes for part II! We dried off that evening and joined Al's Goldfish as they hosted a very informative surfcasting and striper fishing clinic. We'll show you the exact setups we were going to be using throughout the weekend, talk about the different species of fish we could potentially be catching in that area and more! Then you'll come along with us for our official day one- and it was a fun one! Be sure and check out the video version of this episode on YouTube too! Additional Resources: EP. 82 Striper Surfcasting Fishing Clinic Recap Part I EP. 77 Get Schooled! Cape Cod Striper Fishing at Its Finest Al's Goldfish Lure Co. Todd Corayer's Article About the Event on the Fish Wrap Writer Blog Deleware Surf Fishing University How to Cast a Surf Rod Video Salt Strong's FG Knot Tutorial On The Water Outfitters Wisconsin Women Fish Eddy Stahowiak on Instagram The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Page The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Group The Woman Angler & Adventurer on Instagram Listen on Apple Podcasts (subscribe and leave a review!) Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on iHeartRadio Full show notes at thewomanangler.com/88

You heard about the very 1st part of our Cape Cod striper fishing adventure back on episode 82 of the podcast where the group ventured out into a Nor'easter to fish the Cape Cod Canal... This week we're taking you behind-the-scenes for part II! We dried off that evening and joined Al's Goldfish as they hosted a very informative surfcasting and striper fishing clinic. We'll show you the exact setups we were going to be using throughout the weekend, talk about the different species of fish we could potentially be catching in that area and more! Then you'll come along with us for our official day one- and it was a fun one! Be sure and check out the video version of this episode on YouTube too! Additional Resources: EP. 82 Striper Surfcasting Fishing Clinic Recap Part I EP. 77 Get Schooled! Cape Cod Striper Fishing at Its Finest Al's Goldfish Lure Co. Todd Corayer's Article About the Event on the Fish Wrap Writer Blog Deleware Surf Fishing University How to Cast a Surf Rod Video Salt Strong's FG Knot Tutorial On The Water Outfitters Wisconsin Women Fish Eddy Stahowiak on Instagram The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Page The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Group The Woman Angler & Adventurer on Instagram Listen on Apple Podcasts (subscribe and leave a review!) Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on iHeartRadio Full show notes at thewomanangler.com/88  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You heard about the very 1st part of our Cape Cod striper fishing adventure back on episode 82 of the podcast where the group ventured out into a Nor'easter to fish the Cape Cod Canal... This week we're taking you behind-the-scenes for part II! We dried off that evening and joined Al's Goldfish as they hosted a very informative surfcasting and striper fishing clinic. We'll show you the exact setups we were going to be using throughout the weekend, talk about the different species of fish we could potentially be catching in that area and more! Then you'll come along with us for our official day one- and it was a fun one! Be sure and check out the video version of this episode on YouTube too! Additional Resources: EP. 82 Striper Surfcasting Fishing Clinic Recap Part I EP. 77 Get Schooled! Cape Cod Striper Fishing at Its Finest Al's Goldfish Lure Co. Todd Corayer's Article About the Event on the Fish Wrap Writer Blog Deleware Surf Fishing University How to Cast a Surf Rod Video Salt Strong's FG Knot Tutorial On The Water Outfitters Wisconsin Women Fish Eddy Stahowiak on Instagram The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Page The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Group The Woman Angler & Adventurer on Instagram Listen on Apple Podcasts (subscribe and leave a review!) Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on iHeartRadio Full show notes at thewomanangler.com/88

We got you all fired up for striper fishing in Episode 77 featuring "The Fish Wrap Writer" Todd Corayer. We were talking about our upcoming surfcasting clinic in Cape Cod with Wisconsin Women Fish and Al's Goldfish Lure Company. Now that the event is in the books, we've got a great event recap in store for you! Not even a Nor'ester could stop this group of passionate anglers! We had ladies from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, Tennessee and even a couple of locals from the Boston area. I'm happy to report that our guides Eddy and Todd did their job and put us on some exciting striper action. It was a great time and we all learned a lot about surfcasting techniques, how to rig different setups and much more. This episode features the 1st part of our trip, which was technically before the event officially started. We were on our own fishing the Cape Cod Canal, but first, we stopped in at Red Top Sporting Goods for a little inside intel... We hope you take away something from our experience and hopefully you can join us for the next one! Special thanks to Toyota for providing us with an amazing 2019 Tundra TRD Pro for our event! It came in really handy to have a secure place to lock up our gear as we traveled about from spot to spot in search of striper action! Additional Resources: Al's Goldfish Lure Co. Wisconsin Women Fish Red Top Sporting Goods The Fish Wrap Writer- Todd Corayer Eddy Stahowiak on Instagram The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Page The Woman Angler & Adventurer Facebook Group The Woman Angler & Adventurer on Instagram Listen on Apple Podcasts (subscribe and leave a review!) Listen on Google Podcasts Listen on iHeartRadio Full show notes at thewomanangler.com/82

Did you know that you can take a cruise through the Cape Cod Canal--underneathe the bridges and through an awesome water landscape--find out more!

New England - Striped Bass Fishing on the Cape Cod Canal, Rhode Island Deer Management & Mentoring New Hunters This week, our friends Chris Borgatti, Jeff Still and Michael Woods join us to talk about all of the great outdoor opportunities in New England. We're talking about the following: New England BHA's winning wild game dish at the camp chef cook off at Muster in the Mountains, Striped bass fishing in the Cape Cod Canal Scup & Clams Rhode Island deer management update New England BHA's conservation efforts across multiple states, mentorship & hunter recruitment and more! Thanks for listening! Follow New England Backcountry Hunters and Anglers on Instagram HERE Check out the Provincetown Seafood Cookbook by Howard Mitchum HERE

In this episode we interview Jeff Miller of Canal Bait & Tackle in Sagamore, MA, and dive deep into the story and history of Canal Bait & Tackle, which is located less than one half mile from the banks of the legendary Cape Cod Canal. Striped bass fishing has been in Jeff's blood since he was a youngster and his commitment to the local canal fishing community has made his family's shop a go-to resource for Cape Cod Canal fishing ever since they opened their doors in 1996. If you are looking to learn more about fishing the Cape Cod Canal, then this episode is for you.

Fishing New England is weekly fishing show on Boston's WNTN 1550 AM featuring Fisherman Jason Kacoyanis. Tune in Thursday's from 4:00 - 5:00pm on the radio or stream worldwide at www.wntn1550am.com, and check out archived episodes here on SoundCloud, or on Spotify and the Apple Podcast app.

The newly opened Martha’s Vineyard Museum sits on a bluff with stunning views of Vineyard Haven harbor. It’s a renovated structure with an interesting past. “The original property was commissioned to be built as a marine hospital by the Coast Guard in 1895, and it operated as a marine hospital for a number of years,” said Katy Fuller, the Museum’s Director of Operations. “And then once the Cape Cod Canal got built, it wasn’t as necessary and needed any more. So it dwindled in use, and by the 60s, the Coast Guard sold it. It went through a number of owners for a few years until the St. Pierre family purchased it and operated it first as a sleep-away camp in the summer for island kids, and then later as just a day camp.” Eventually, the original building fell into disrepair and was mostly hidden from view and forgotten. “There was shrubbery, arbor vitae’s. Trees had just grown up in front of the terrace. No one knew it was here,” Fuller said. When the property came on the market in 2011,

Today on CCTLive, we'll talk about the reaction from Bourne residents at a meeting about the future of the Cape Cod Canal bridges, more consternation over the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District and big decisions about pot in Brewster.

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