Pond Stories: Sheep Pond Skate
We sent our advisor Mark Robinson back into the field, this time to study water quality in Sheep Pond, one of the top five cleanest ponds in Brewster. I was glad to see some ice fishing holes on Sheep Pond on this gray day in early March. That meant I would have an...
Pond Stories: Mary Oliver’s Blackwater Pond, Provincetown
I’m not sure if this story I’m about to tell you is one of my more negative or positive learning experiences. It involves the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver, a rainy night on Commercial Street in Provincetown and everything you miss when you...
Pond Stories: Canoeing On Long Pond, Centerville
Canoeing on Long Pond, Centerville By Steve Waller January 2022 was the first calendar month when I did not get out in my single-seat canoe since we moved to Long Pond in Centerville four years ago. The weather has been harsh and the ice often completely covering the...
Pond Stories: The Punch Bowl at Beebe Woods, Falmouth
There are so many things to see and do on the Cape in the winter and taking an easy hike to a local pond is not only free, it’s good for your mental and physical health. With everything happening in the world right now that is completely out of your hands, clear...
Pond Stories: Paddle Boarding at 89 on Elbow Pond, Brewster
Thanks to Sanford Zevon for sending us these poetic images of Brewster’s Elbow Pond. How can you not fall in love with ponds and want to protect them based on how beautiful they are? And yes, that’s Sanford paddle boarding at 89! Got a Pond Story you want to...