OCEARCH is one of the coolest websites ever. You can track any shark they have tagged with pings. Pings happen only when the sharks tag breaks the water and can send a signal, that’s why it looks like they cross land sometimes. Those lines aren’t actually their swimming path.

Anyway, the above screen shot is the path of “Katharine”, a 14 ft. Great White shark tagged off of The Cape last year and named after Falmouth native Katharine Lee Bates, author of “America the Beautiful”. Let’s zoom in a little shall we?

Well that is odd, it almost looks like Katharine is at the Wellfleet Dunkin’ Donuts grabbing a coffee or something. What the hell is going on here, let’s zoom in one more time…

WHOA! That Great White is like 10 feet away from a bunch of dinghies, shit it’s like 20 feet away from a bunch of cars! Let’s get even closer…

GET OUT OF THE WATER! Can these people hear me? Someone in Wellfleet go warn these people! Oh the humanity! This was yesterday at 5:45 p.m. isn’t shark season over? I figured these sons of bitches would be golfing at Hilton Head by now.

Quick! Somebody call the Nantucket Shark Wrangler and get him on the next boat to Wellfleet!

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CapeCodOnline.com – The Massachusetts Maritime Academy website was hacked twice Monday in a cyber-attack that appeared to stem from an Islamic extremist group, campus officials said.

Rear Adm. Richard Gurnon, president of the Buzzards Bay university, said a group known as the Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail is believed to be responsible for both hacks, the first of which redirected students and staff to a website showing a photograph of an American soldier’s grave, with audio of a man speaking in Arabic.

Staff members alerted the academy to the hack at about 1:30 p.m. after trying to access their email, only to be sent to the website showing the soldier’s grave above Arabic text.

Gurnon said the hack lasted for about an hour until staff members were able to plug holes in the academy’s system, preventing students and staff from being redirected to the website. But at about 9 p.m., Gurnon said, the same group attacked the homepage, shutting it down overnight and preventing students from finishing their homework assignments online.

Gurnon confirmed that the group did not access any personnel data or information from the academy’s business office. He suspected that the group was seeking publicity based on the mistaken belief that the academy has a military affiliation.

“It appears the people targeting the academy saw kids in uniform, assumed we were military and did this attack saying the military will die in the deserts of Iraq,” Gurnon said.

Do you think Islamic extremist groups have board meetings? If so heads are going to roll at the Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail’s headquarters when the bosses get wind of this. I can’t imagine that mistaking a merchant marine academy for a military target is going to go over well. Islamic extremists aren’t exactly known for their high levels of tolerance for subordinates who waste extremist time and resources.

The poor IT guy at the Moroccan Islamic Union-Mail, he thought he was destined for 70 virgins in heaven but instead he was probably demoted to printing out “death to America” handbills in the copy room for all of eternity.

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CapeCodOnline.com – You’ll be able to buy lobsters, oysters and swordfish at Joe’s Lobster Mart for at least a couple more days.

John Kiernan, an attorney for Joseph Vaudo, the shop’s owner, said he filed for and received a temporary restraining order Friday night.

The state Department of Public Health issued a cease and desist order Friday and a decision to revoke the fish dealer’s licenses to buy and sell fish, prompted by his March conviction for receiving stolen oysters.

The DPH ruling was made by Commissioner Cheryl Bartlett, one month after a Sept. 4 hearing before the state Division of Administrative Law Appeals. Joe’s Lobster Mart has remained open since DPH first moved to revoke the licenses in April.

The state agency began the proceedings to revoke his licenses just weeks after Vaudo pleaded guilty in Barnstable District Court to receiving stolen oysters in his market. He was ordered to pay a $6,250 fine for admitting guilt to that and other charges.

State health officials were unmoved at last month’s hearing saying Vaudo showed no remorse for the transaction that led to his guilty plea in March in Barnstable District Court. Vaudo purchased oysters stolen by Michael Bryant from Yarmouth shellfish beds. Police had Bryant, a suspect later convicted in a string of oyster thefts in the summer of 2013, under surveillance.

Vaudo had argued there was no public health threat because he dumped the oysters in the Cape Cod Canal.

On Saturday, customers flowed in and out of the market’s front door, where a “Help Wanted” sign hung.

So to re cap this situation. The guy was convicted of receiving stolen oysters in March, undermining every honest shellfisherman, his customers, oyster farms, his community, and public health with no remorse whatsoever. Then the Department of Public Health moved to revoke his license in April, finally doing so over a month ago, yet Joe’s Lobster Mart is still open, thriving, and apparently hiring? Seems about right.

We called for an all out boycott of Joe’s in THIS POST back in April. That post garnered 2,700 likes so I’m pretty sure quite a few people agreed with us when we said…

“Vaudo on the other hand fucked over the very community that supports his business. Honest hard working people are working their ass off to provide him with the shellfish that he sells to other honest hard working people under the pretense that he is buying them from the honest hard working people in their community. Joe’s Lobster Mart buying stolen shellfish at a discount and selling them at regular prices is offensive on many, many levels.

Unfortunately Joe’s Lobster Mart will probably survive because of the money he makes from tourists who will never know and probably don’t care about this story. Even though this may be the case, there is no excuse for any year round resident to ever do business with this man again. We are calling for a full on boycott of Joe’s. Please share this, spread the word about this guy and BOYCOTT JOE’S LOBSTER MART! Let’s show Cape Cod business people they can’t fuck over the communities they do business in without repercussions.”

The bottom line is that Joe’s Lobster Mart still being open is just an example of bureaucracy failing again. Violating your communities trust this deeply and exposing yourself as a dishonest person who doesn’t care about supporting the very industry that you make your living from is inexcusable. Knowingly exposing the people in your community to a health risk is unforgivable.

The government may not have the balls to do anything about it but we can, if you are a resident of Cape Cod and you shop at Joe’s Lobster Mart then you are part of the problem, you might as well cut through the middle man and just steal shit straight from your neighbor and inject red tide into their kids eyeballs. Stop shopping there, now.

P.S. If you believe that Joe threw the oysters that he went through the trouble of purchasing on the black market into the Canal then I have some nice property in Florida I’ll sell you cheap.

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CapeNews.net – The curtain came up yesterday, October 2, on the state’s plan for construction of a third automotive bridge across the Cape Cod Canal.

Top state transportation officials met in Boston with members of the Cape and Islands legislative delegation to describe their concept for building and financing the span.

Yesterday’s discussion is the first of a series of outreach meetings planned by state transportation officials in the coming weeks and months with local officials, civic and business groups, and residents on Cape Cod.

The first meeting may be held as soon as October 15, according to state Representative Randy Hunt, R-Sandwich, who attended yesterday’s briefing.

The officials anticipate that the construction of the bridge will take between six and eight years.

Given an estimated period of about two years prior to construction for tasks such as permitting and engineering, the bridge could open between 2022 and 2024.

Six to eight years to build? In the 1930’s they built both the Bourne and Sagamore bridges in two years using elbow grease and wooly mammoths. How is it that we are less efficient at building bridges now than we were 80 years ago? We build cars faster, we run marathons faster, we heat food faster, how is it that we can’t put up a bridge faster? We’ve learned how to beam the internet into our pockets from space but a river crossing? Sorry, that’s gonna take 4 times as long as it did back before we had rubber tires and transistor radios. Insanity.

P.S. Don’t forget this is Massachusetts. Saying a highway project will take 6-8 years is code for fifteen years and triple the budget.

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WL – Dawson Farber III was on the water late in August, during the weekend of the annual Arey’s Pond Catboat Regatta, when he saw a drone flying overhead.

“The thing was just wicked cool,” he said.

Then Farber, who is in charge of the roads for the private Mayflower Point Association and who had just gotten an earful about excessive speeds in the area at a neighborhood meeting, had an idea.

Several days later, a new sign appeared on Kescayogansett Road, just as the paving ends and the dirt road starts.
“Speed limit 15 mph. Drone enforced,” it reads.

The new sign seems to have worked, said Farber. Unlike the “big yellow” signs that have been posted all over the point for years asking folks to please slow down and have been ignored.

A drive along the road doesn’t guarantee a sighting. This reporter didn’t see one.

“It is well camouflaged,” said Farber with a grin.

I get it! There is no drone right? I’m on to this prankster! You might be able to put one over on the people of Orleans, but you have to get up pretty early to fool me. I was all set to say how ridiculous it is to lie about unmanned aircraft enforcing speed limits on a private road with a 15 MPH speed limit, but honestly, what was Dawson supposed to do? Can you imagine how frightening it must be to get an “earful about excessive speeds” from the “private Mayflower Point Association”? When those savages are on you it’s time for desperate measures.

Seriously though, is Dawson Farber III getting ideas at a Catboat Regatta for new ways to stop poor people from speeding on Kescayogansett Road the most stereotypical Cape Coddy thing you’ve ever heard?

Anyway, it looks like we’ve got some good ole’ fashioned high jinx happening out there on Mayflower Point, next thing you know they’ll be tying each other’s topsider laces together when they aren’t looking. Someone might even end up letting the air out of their neighbors Range Rover tires, I don’t know, I’m not sure if they’ll have enough time.

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These things are cute as hell there’s no doubt about that, but someone found them in Seekonk and drove them an hour and a half to The Cape for care? That’s lunacy. If I found them I would keep them in my pocket and name them human names like Rick, but there’s zero chance I’d transport them that far. People are weird.

P.S. Also let’s not forget, let’s not forget Dude, that keeping wildlife… ummm… an amphibious rodent… for um you know… domestic… within the city… that ain’t legal either.

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After the success of our Keller Williams show at Pufferbellies, and what a blast it was, we’ve been thinking of the next show to do there. We really wanted something special and I’m pretty sure you’ll agree that we found it. On December 4th, at 8 p.m. The Real Cape will present The Wailers… but it’s not just any Wailers show. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the release of the iconic “Legend” LP, they will be performing the album in it’s entirety!

For those of you that have been to our events in the past, you know the drill. It’s going to be a ton of good people partying their asses off and having the time of their lives. So if you have a shitty attitude or are a member of the Fun Police do us a favor and stay home. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

This is a once in a lifetime show and everybody loves reggae so you should probably get your tickets in advance. The show is 18+. CLICK HERE to buy them now to make sure you get to be a part of the irie vibes.

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