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Greetings from Cape Cod Treasure Chest and Jan Gilman! (Jan has been a longtime guest at our motel The Big Fisherman and a great friend!)

……Last night, Dad & I took our dear friends, Don, Dawn and Dot for a ride out to Hatches Harbor to watch the sunset.

Only Molly was missing but we had no room for her.

Oh, and my son Aaron, and won’t he be upset when he sees the pictures of the blue fish causing the water to boil right at the shoreline at low tide!

The ride through the dunes was smooth, the sky was clear as a bell and there was a nice, crisp wind blowing, keeping those nasty “no-see-ems” away from us.

We watched the fish jump & splash and many folks trying to catch one.

For those that did hook one ( and how could you not?) I wondered if they would have a nice lunch of fresh bluefish or just toss them back. I for one love fresh bluefish cooked on my little grill.

We watched the sun dip into the ocean and you could almost hear it sizzle.

The gulls were flying low over the water, heading for home for the evening. We bumped along the beach and saw many seals bobbing in the water. I guess they didn’t realize the fish were down the beach a bit, or maybe they already had their fill.

It was a lovely trip with our Cape Cod family. Don, Dawn & Dot clearly enjoyed the brief vist and Dad and I loved having them with us.

Maybe those fish will be back tonight when my sons Matt & Aaron arrive and maybe I’ll be eating bluefish for lunch tomorrow!!

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When I was a young boy, there was a nice family who lived at the beach in the summer. they had 3 boys and 2 girls plus the mother and father.

The stayed in a great cottage. It was a good size cottage about a story and a half. 7 people lived in this cottage with bunk beds and a fire place.

The boys were my age and I always use to go visit to play with the boys at the seashore. We had a lot of fun and lots of good memories.

The mother and father of the kids were great swimmers. Their mother taught me how to swim. She would tell me to go out into the deep water and that she would come and save me. She would come get me and thru me over her back and brought me to shore and then onto the beach. She scarred the heck out of me. But I did learn to swim!

I even became a diver because of her teaching me to swim and because of my love of the ocean.

Years went by and the cottage was moved from the beach to across the street as the new owners were going to build some more motel units.

I happened to be working down at this motel, building a board walk. The people who owned it said they are taking this cottage down and are taking it to the Truro dump. I said what a shame. He said why, you would want this?

You can have the cottage for nothing, but you have to have it moved in one week. If it is not moved in one week then we will tear it down.

I called Boston to get some riggers to come and lift the house off its foundation. I had a buddy in Truro dig a hole and to pour the cement for a basement. This was in October and there was even some snow on the ground.

They brought it up about 1/4 a mile and set it on my property. I put new windows in the cottage and shingled it.

I found out that it was a Sears and Roebucks house. Someone came by from Michigan, and they had a catalog of all the Sears and Roebucks house. Each house had a catalog number in the basement. We found the number and were able to look it up in his book.

Sears and Roebucks use to sell livestock and farm equipement. Then they decided that these people needed houses, so then they sold houses and then they got rid of the livestock and then they said these people, need furniture, these people need, clothing, etc. And that is how Sears and Roebucks grew all those years.

They have a street up in Michigan that are all Sears & Roebuck houses. There are about 3 Sears & Roebucks houses in Truro and Ptown today.

I always had a good feeling in this house. I used this house as my wood shop and built picnic tables and adirondack chairs, bird houses and all kinds of wood products for over 40 years.

I had more meals in this house as a kid and now I’m in my 70’s and I’m still playing in the house.

It’s very satisfying for me to be here and I get a lot of pleasure from this great cottage.

I use to love to go sea clamming on a moon tide. On a moon tide the tides are usually higher or lower than normal. At low tide, the water would be out further and the sand bars would show more.

Sea clams are the largest clam, reaching 5-9 inches in size. They are just under the sand, sometimes if you are on a sand bar and you walk along the bar, water would squirt up and you knew there was a clam. You use a long prong quahog clam rack or you can even claim by hand. You drag your hand or rake across the sand down about an inch and you would feel what felt like a large rock. Upon inspection it was usually a nice big clam.

My step father was the North Truro clam warden. He would be at the beach at low tide making sure that people had their permit and also that they were only taking one bucket of clams. If you had to many clams he would take off a couple and would take them home himself. (Easy clamming!)

There are three types of claims commonly found on Cape Cod. Soft-shell clams are best steamed or fried. Quahogs named by the Indians, are hard shell clams and come in three sizes, littlenecks, 2 to 2 1/2 inches, cherrystones, 2 1/2-3 inches and anything larger is a sea clam or chowder clam. These large chowder sea clams are the once I used to get.

My mother would make delicious sea clam pie, clam chowder, (of course us New Englanders refer to it as Chowdah) and stuffed clams.

We would grind the sea clams in a special hand crank chopper. Today a food processer makes this very easy.

We would get so many clams that we would store the clams in bags and freeze them for the winter months.

Being on the beach you would see so much sea life, horseshoe crabs, mussels, shells. I always enjoyed my time at the beach.

Here’s some great recipes for Sea Clams

Recipes
Stuffed Sea Clams
Open 8-10 sea clams and reserve 1 1/2 cup of liquid. Melt 1/2 a stick of butter and sautee 1/2 Spanish onion (chopped), 2 minced garlic cloves.

Add chopped clams, 1 Tablespoon Parsley, dash of tabasco, 1/2 tsp pepper and approximately 2 cups of seasoned bread crumbs. You want to make this mixture like a stuffing.

Take the sea clam shells and boil for about 10 minutes to clean. Put your stuffing mix into the shells. Place in 325 degree oven for 30 minutes or until hot.

You can also wrap the clams in foil and place on your grill for 20 minutes.

Eat and enjoy!

Sea Clam Pie

2 cups sea clams chopped or put thru grinder (save juice!)

2 cups hot boiled potatoes diced in 1/4 inch cubes

2 medium onions, chopped finely

2 cups celery, diced finely

2 bay leaves (optional)

5 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons flour

sea salt and pepper

1/4 cup heavy cream

2 tablespoons parsley, minced

Pastry dough for two 9-inch pies

Line pie plates with pastry dough.

Sauté onions and celery in 3 tablespoons of butter. Add clam juice, bay leaves.

Make a roux of flour rubbed with the remaining 2 tablespoons of softened butter and add to clam liquor, stirring until smooth, making a thin gravy.

Season with pepper to taste.

Combine ground clams, potatoes, cream, and gravy,

Place mixture into pie pans. Add one bay leaf per pie. Sprinkle with minced parsley. Fit and trim pastry dough to top, and prick with air holes.

Bake in a hot oven (450 F) for at least 15 minutes or until brown.

Serves 6-8.

New England Clam Chowder

5 cups of clam juice and water (Save the juice from your clams and add to it the water to make the 5 cups.)
1 cup of flour
1 cup onion, finely diced
1 small piece of salt pork (optional)
2 tablespoons of margarine
2 cups of chopped clams
4 medium potatoes, cooked and cut in bite sized chunks
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup light cream
freshly ground black pepper

Saute the salt pork in a large saucepan on medium heat in 1 tablespoon of oil until lightly brown. Remove salt pork. Add clam juice.

In a separate pan, melt margarine and saute the diced onions until they appear translucent. Add flour to the melted margarine and stir continuously for 5 minutes. Increase heat on clam juice to medium-high, and with a wire whisk, add flour, margarine and onion mixture to the liquid. Stir constantly, breaking up any lumps that form.

Add clams and stir. Add potato chunks, milk, cream, and salt and continue stirring. Decrease heat to medium-low, and allow to simmer for about 20 minutes, stirring frequently to avoid burning or sticking.
Serve hot with oyster crackers, adding freshly ground black pepper to taste.

Hello,

This is Don Perry, here today. My daughter Dawn Perry, sells cedar wood furniture and ceramic tiles. She has created this blog and has asked me to tell different stories of my life and things that are happening on Cape Cod.

I’m 78 years old and have had a lot of exciting experiences that have happened to me and I would like to tell you about them.

One story I’d like to share is…..

I had a small boat that I used to go fishing in and it was tied up to my float at McMillan Wharf, in Provincetown when I saw a whale.

It was an orca whale that was in the harbor and evidently he was kicked out of his pod. A pod is a group of whales. Either he was a midget or for some reason the other whales didn’t like him, and so he chose man.

He came into the harbor and he went to the lobster boats and fishing boats and he was begging for fish. The fisherman would throw the whale fish.

I was in my boat that day and a fisherman told me to cut up a blue fish that I had just caught. I told the fisherman that the whale is not here anymore. He said cut up the blue fish and wash it in the water. I did and sure enough the whale comes up out of the water right in front of me. I fed him a couple of blue fish about 10 - 12 pounds each that I had cut in pieces. He ate the fish and then I put out my hands and said “I don’t have anymore”.

He went down under the water. I thought that he was going away but he came back and he gave me a rotten flounder that was half decayed. He gave it to me and I put my hand on it and then he pulled away. I let the flounder go and then he lunged right in front of me again as if to say take the flounder it is for you! I took the fish and then I said I need to get some more blue fish for this whale.

I asked another fisherman for a blue fish and I cut up the blue fish and I gave the whale this fish and told the whale again, that I had no more fish for him and I then gave him back his flounder.

The whale came right up along side my boat and I was able to pat the whale, his skin was a blue purplish color but when I put my fingers on his skin, it would be white almost like a sunburn and then after a few seconds it would return to the blue purplish color. I never knew a whale’s skin would do that.

After this the whale took his flounder and disappeared.

This is a fishing town and we have whale watch boats that take people out to see the whales, usually humpbacks and finbacks, sometimes you will see dolphins and seals. People just love to go out on these trips and the whales are attracted to the boats, the whales will come right up to the boat and sometimes they go underneath the boat and spray the people on board.

The whales just don’t know why these boats are out here all the time. They are very curious about the boats.

Getting back to my story, About a week later a captain of one of the whale watching boats was telling me a story about how a few days ago he was out about 5 or 6 oclock in the morning and he got into a little boat and he had a recording of whale sounds. He went out just a little ways betweeen two wharfs. The captain was playing the whale sounds and the orca whale came up and started making the same sounds as the tape. The whale must of thought there was another whale in the boat. He started to tell me that this whale went under the water and brought up this old flounder. The whale was trying to give the dead flounder to him. The captain said he didn’t know what to do…. I guess the whale got digusted as the whale left the flounder to sink to the bottom of the bay.

I didn’t tell this captain my experience until after he had told me his experience. We were both very surprised after sharing our stories!

So this is one of my stories that I thought was very exciting and I was thrilled to have experienced it. He was here about 3 weeks and finally he left, I never knew what happened to him. He left port to go to other places.

I hope he is safe and that he found his pod and that he was accepted. That he’s happy and doing ok.

I thought this was very exciting, that I was able to pat him and feed him.

So, this is one of my stories and I’ll come back to tell you another story in a few days.

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