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The small boats and lush landscape are reflected here in the calm waters off Welfleet Harbor.
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Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
No spot on Cape Cod is more than 10 miles from a waterside view, but as the drive heads
north toward Wellfleet, the Cape's forearm tapers to little more than a slender sandbar.
Here, overlooking Wellfleet Harbor, sprawls the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Man-
aged by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, the preserve embraces 1,000 acres of pitch
pine and oak forest, marshland, and moors spangled with huckleberries. Just off Rte. 6 are
two spur roads—one leading to Marconi Beach, a strip of sand backed by bluffs, and the
other to the site of Marconi Station, from which Nobel prize-winner Guglielmo Marconi
transmitted the first transatlantic message from the United States to Europe in 1903.
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Wellfleet
Fronting one of the Lower Cape's two great natural harbors, Wellfleet was once a lively
whalingport,andthebellsofthetown'sFirstCongregationalChurchstillkeepship'stime,
ringing two, four, six, or eight bells according to the shipboard shedule used to change the
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