August 2025 Provincetown, Adirondacks
Saturday August 2 I'm in Provincetown for the weekend, to stand out on Route 6 with Susan as the Pan Mass Challenge cyclists ride into Ptown on Sunday morning at the end of their fundraiser for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute (where Jeannie was treated). But first, Susan has tickets to go on a whale watch this evening with the Center for Coastal Studies, which studies marine ecosystems and tracks whales. Before we even got to Race Point at the tip of the Cape, we spotted a fin whale, the second largest living being on the planet (after the blue whale), very exciting! They are typically 80 feet long, weigh 40-80 tons and can live up to 80-90 years (according to NOAA Fisheries). Further out, we spotted several humpback whales, and watched two that appeared to be hunting together. One, Salt, named for her white scarring on her dorsal fin, has been sighted in Massachusetts Bay every summer since 1975. You can read more about her on the Coastal Studies website and this ...