AMC Recommended Trips – Sea Kayaking Wellfleet Harbor—Great Island to Jeremy Point (Moderate Sea Kayaking in MA)

Source: Sea Kayaking Along the New England Coast

What you’ll see: Great Island in Wellfleet is one of the most remote areas on the Cape. The island has high dunes, pitch pine forests, and a wide expanse of tidal flats that at low tide are home to the famous Wellfleet oyster.

What you’ll experience:

• Trip Mileage: 7 miles round trip
• Tidal Range: 10 feet at Wellfleet
• Charts and Maps: NOAA #13250 at 1:40,000
• Access: Herring River on Great Island in Wellfleet

What’s in the area:

• Site of an 18th century whaler’s tavern
• Jeremy Point is one of the most productive plover breeding grounds in the Northeast as well as a haul-out site for harbor and gray seals
• Numerous picnic sites
• Billingsgate Island, once a fishing community that was overtaken by sand and tides

Getting There

• Head into Wellfleet Center, off US 6, and follow signs for the harbor. Take a right at the marina onto Chequesset Neck Road. After you cross the bridge, to the left is a small turnoff into the access area. If you reach the parking lot for the Great Island Trail, you’ve gone too far.