Cape Cod Weekend - July 24-27, 2020 (Franklin's Gull+)
![Image](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeVRJKyTlonC8Fl0f1S6AKRUV4FcFabNvL3CGKAAf2CWdY8uk9cXniiF5u10G7XUy0xbicaH5GwxZHTXJ1bg76XA4qU1HCQyztX-uIqiarFU8zGsD_F9D00aa8Tp5kh24P28JBCrybVPWQ/w400-h266/1J1A2375a.jpg)
Advanced travel planning in 2020 has been a bit of a lost cause for obvious reasons, so I have been eager to pounce on whatever reasonably safe opportunities have presented themselves for getting the %&$# out of Connecticut. This past weekend's hot, humid and dry weather inspired a long weekend on Cape Cod with friends. Shorebird migration should be in full swing, and seabird activity had been picking up at Race Point...hopes were high for a birdy weekend, and that's exactly what we got! Dave Provencher and I departed CT very early on Friday (7/24) morning as we drove to Chatham with kayaks mounted on the car. We would attempt to kayak out to the South Beach/Monomoy complex in search of shorebirds and terns. We knew that this would pose a challenge, as the landscape out here has changed drastically since South Beach breached during a storm in 2013, making the waters extremely difficult to navigate. We paddled out of Morris Island on the low tide and were met with large ex