No owners in off season

On The Great Beach (aka Nauset Beach) of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

— Photo by Donna Benevides

“In the ‘off’ and empty season, after the tides have erased all signs of a hundred thousand human feet, it was hard to believe that the beach could be owned or claimed by anyone.’’

— John Hay (1915-2011), nature writer, in The Great Beach