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I wonder what it would be like if their wasn't any CCNS to run things. I remember when their wasn't any CCNS at all. I remember when you just went to the beach and parked at Coast Guard and did not pay any fee. I remember Whitings food stand that washed away many years ago at Nauset Beach at the end of Cable Road in North Eastham. I remember when going to the Marconi Station at Camp Wellfleet was just that going to see the big thick black wires stretching out into the Atlantic that once was high tech trans-atlantic communications at its best. I remember taking a dirt road to the right about 3/4 of the way in off the highway at Camp Wellfleet and driving for a couple of miles until you would get to this little turnaround. I remember parking there and riding our surfboards down the dunes to get to the water. I also also remember that god-awful walk back up the dune with surfboard on head. Jesus that was a long walk. I remember that absolutely no one else ever used that beach back then, no one. That little turnaround was just about where the stairway is now leading down to the beach from the huge parking lot now occupying much of the area to accomodate all the people that go to Marconi Beach (Camp Wellfleet). I remember all the city kids from New York that used to live at Camp Wellfleet in the summertime. The feds who took care of the kids used to bus them to the dances at the Eastham town hall on Saturday night where all of us met them. Thoses kids did a tremendous amount of the work it took to start transforming Camp Wellfleet into what it is today. Those kids lived in the old barracks that were left over from WW II. I wonder if any of them ever developed as deep a love for Cape Cod as I did? You had to be there back then when Poit's drive-in in North Eastham had carhop service. Oh those Mastretta sisters. You had to be there, when going to the submarine races at the Wellfleet drive-in ment that the original Guns of Navarone was playing and their was a submarine in the movie.
My point here is enjoy what there is of Cape Cod today anyway you can, because today is a much simpler time than what its going to be thirty-five years from now like it was much more simple 35 years ago for me. Good luck fishing this year everyone and everyone have a safe summer, God Bless.