Boat to South Beach

On Cape Cod, you can choose from many beaches.  Over the years, I've learned to distinguish between them.

You have your "Lake" beaches.  These are generally adjacent to a lake.  The sand is reliable, because it is imported by truck.  Sometimes there's a dock, you must have a parking sticker, and the Blue Sky Ice Cream truck is timed to arrive just as it's too early for ice cream.

Then there are the "Bay" beaches.  These are adjacent to the part of the water where in order to get properly "lost at sea" you'd have to drift for many miles around Provincetown.  Bay beaches have crazy tides; are near cute shopping, and the Blue Sky truck is timed to arrive just as you've started lunch.

Lastly, there are the "Ocean" beaches.  These are, apparantly, wide and varied.  There are dozens, it seems, and people have their favorites.  My favorites are the ones where you don't have to pay to park.  I'm still looking for one that fits this bill.  Ocean beaches are windy, packed with hole-digging, castle-building kids, require a full carload of people to transport all your stuff to the sand, and sometimes have fried food and ice cream nearby.

The boat to South Beach is a two-for-one.  You take a boat to a bay beach (not the real bay, a different bay) and then can either stay there among the mosquitos, or walk a couple hundred yards across to the green flies at the ocean.  It's up to you.