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Liam’s At Nauset Beach In Orleans On Cape Cod To Be Demolished This Week After Nor’Easter

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Liam’s at Nauset Beach, a popular summer clam shack known for its “world famous onion rings” will be demolished this week after the Nor’easter last weekend. The storm decimated the dune in front of Liam’s and now Liam’s on the verge of falling into the ocean.

Liam’s at Nauset Beach has been a popular summer restaurant for 63 years, originally known as Philbrick’s Snack Shack. Jon Ohman took it over in 1990 and renamed it Liam’s.

Back in 1954, more than 250 feet of sand and beach grass separated the shack from the ocean. Erosion usually takes about 12  feet per year but two powerful storms in the past two months have swallowed up more than 60 feet of the protective buffer.

There have been so many people stopping by Liam’s and Nauset Beach, almost as if it were “calling hours” to say their last goodbyes. So sad. The storm last weekend has taken 2 icons in the area…. the majestic tree at Fort Hill and now Liam’s at Nauset Beach.

As Jon said to us yesterday, “It is truly a day that we can be in awe of nature.”

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Nauset Marsh On Cape Cod During The Storm At High Tide!

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I took this photograph of the bench, our favorite picnic spot, on Saturday during the storm at high tide,  looking out at Nauset Marsh, but there is no marsh. It looks like the ocean has come ashore.

This 2nd photograph is of Hemenway Landing next to Fort Hill where you can see the boats washed ashore. This is also on Nauset Marsh which  looked like a raging ocean. Wow!

 

 

 

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Coast Guard Beach On The National Seashore During The Storm Last Weekend

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Coast Guard Beach was hammered last weekend during the huge storm. I took a run down to the beach to see what it looked like, but couldn’t get to the beach because the water was so high. This is as far as I got along the trail. The ocean was raging!

The 2nd photograph shows the boardwalk on Nauset Marsh that we walk on to get from Coast Guard Beach to Doane Rock underwater. That is unbelievable! I have never seen the water this high!

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Cedar Bank Links Golf Course On The Salt Pond Trail On Cape Cod

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Years ago, there was a golf course where the Salt Pond Trail in Eastham is now located. There is a marker by the marsh identifying the roller for the golf course in the high grass. You can see it in photograph the on the right of the trail in the distance.

“Eastham’s Cedar Bank Links, a private course, was constructed in the mid 1920’s and existed until just after World War II. The course dominated the landscape that today is occupied by the Cape Cod National Seashore’s visitor’s center and the land surrounding Salt Pond. In fact, the parking lot of the visitor’s center sits where the ninth hole use to be. The 17th green was near where the boathouses stand today.”

Very cool, don’t you think?

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Bluebirds Love The Mealworms At Our Home On Cape Cod!

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We hadn’t seen any Bluebirds in the past couple of weeks so we decided to put out some dried Mealworms to see if we could entice them to come to our feeders. We’ve tried the Mealworms a few times in the past, but all they seem to attract are the Blue Jays who will gobble them all up in seconds. But, why not?

I put them out and within 10 minutes we had about 15 Bluebirds trying to get to them. It was awesome! This photograph is where one Bluebird was there alone enjoying his Mealworms, when another Bluebird flew in thinking that they could share the bounty. Fat chance! This guy scared him away in seconds!

But, we had so many Bluebirds on our feeders yesterday, it was totally incredible! I loved the Goldfinch on the left watching the whole thing. Too funny!