I've just completed a mini-vacation to the island of Nantucket, located about 30 miles off the shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The above picture is Cisco Beach. We biked there. It's about 6 miles from town (one way).
This next beach is much harder to get to. It's called Great Point, and is located on the northern tip of the island, between both the Atlantic Ocean and Nantucket Sound.
This beach is actually part of the Coskata-Coatue Wildlife Refuge and is an area protected for seals and birds. You can only reach it via 4 wheel drive jeep, and a 5 mile drive over a thick and rutted beach. My husband and I were the only ones there that day, plus the ranger.
Madaket Beach (below) was easily our favorite because it's wide and long and just beautiful. The only problem - this is Nantucket, so you can't really get here easily for a beach day. There is no parking. So you need to have one of the very expensive homes near the beach to enjoy it, or you could ride a bike there.
There are even houses right on the beach which don't have any parking, not even for one car. I was wondering how they use a house like that. But the beach is gorgeous.
I like this view of Sconset Beach because of the pretty dune grass which is all over Nantucket. The island suffers from severe erosion problems so they leave the grass alone.
Since Nantucket is an island, they have many more beautiful beaches. The only problem is they can be hard to access. Nantucketers are not anxious to be bombarded by day trippers, and most of the beaches are bordered by homes which are private property. Still, we managed to see a fair number of them with a jeep and some bicycles.
My story, Love Charm for Dakota, is set in Nantucket.
Would you use a love charm to capture a man?
Nantucket is the home of hedge fund titans, old money and
hidebound tradition. Habits are comfortable, and the habits of the rich are
very comfortable. Into Cabot Saltonstall's sedate world blows Dakota Bishop,
possessor of a wild spirit and a magical love charm. Cabot's blue-blood family
history includes an ancestor who resigned from the Salem Witch trials, because
he refused to believe in witchcraft.
But Cabot is all too willing to be bewitched.
Dakota can't stay still long enough for anyone to tie her
down, nor is Cabot the right kind of guy for her. If only he'd have sex with
her so she could get him out of her system. Why does he need to be so
traditional with his emotions and plans for the future? Does she know enough of
witchcraft to overcome the spell of the accidentally cast love charm?
