Short answer: sunglasses, sunscreen, and your phone. That’s genuinely most of it. The trip is about an hour inside Chatham Harbor, so conditions are close to whatever the weather is doing in town — this isn’t an offshore run that needs special gear. People sometimes turn up braced for an expedition. You don’t need to. … Continue reading
If you’ve never been out on the water to see the seals, the most common question we get at the dock is a simple one: what actually happens out there? Here’s the honest answer, from the crew who runs the trip every day. It’s One Hour, and It Leaves Right From Chatham Our Chatham seal … Continue reading
Short answer: there are really two ways. From shore, which is free and unreliable — a few heads in the surf. Or from a boat, which is the only way to see the colony itself. The seals haul out on sandbars off Chatham and around Monomoy, and there is no way to walk to them: … Continue reading
Short answer: Cape Cod has two seal species. Gray seals are large — bulls reach 800 pounds — with a long, straight, horse-like muzzle. Harbor seals are much smaller, rarely over 250 pounds, with a short concave face that looks like a Labrador. If it’s summer in Chatham and the animal is huge, it’s a … Continue reading
If you’ve heard that Chatham is the place to see seals on Cape Cod, you heard right. The waters around Chatham Harbor and the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge are home to one of the largest gray seal colonies on the East Coast — thousands of seals hauled out on the sandbars, bobbing in the channels, … Continue reading
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