The Inn is just a ten-minute drive to the 44,000-acre Cape Cod National Seashore, offering 40 miles of pristine Atlantic Coast and Cape Cod Bay beaches. You can experience a flat beach with crashing waves and a coastal marshland at Coast Guard Beach, or take a ride to Marconi Beach where the beach rises to a whole new dimension with high dunes, sea grass, and a boardwalk with a bird's eye view overlooking dunes, Atlantic coastline, and Cape Cod Bay, or experience an unforgettable sunset from Race Point.

While visiting the beaches, see the lighthouses that once kept ships from crashing during the night. Each lighthouse has its own light colors and  duration of blinks.

Kayaking is exceptional on the Outer Cape, where to the National  Seashore offers protected waterways, which attract not  only the seasoned but also the novice kayaker. Ride out with the tide and reach Nauset Beach, have a picnic lunch and ride the tide home again. If the ocean is too rough  for your liking, there are many kettle ponds that dot Eastham for a relaxing swim or canoe ride.

With  a special pass and a four-wheel drive you can ride out on Nauset Beach where you can watch the antics of the Seals. (www.orleanschamberofcommerce.com) If not by land you can go by sea. A trip by boat to Monomoy Island rides through the seals' playground for a close up look at their environment. 

(Photos above courtesy of Cape Cod National Seashore.)

If baseball is your passion, then many say that the Cape Cod Amateur Baseball is the way the game should be played. www.capecodbaseball.org

If bicycling is your sport of choice, then behind the Inn is the Cape Cod Rail Trail. The trail was once an old railroad bed and traverses 30-miles through beautiful salt marshes, fresh water kettle ponds, state parks, and small  village hamlets, and cut-offs to the beach, where you can enjoy the unspoiled environment of outer Cape Cod. Now with a new overpass crossing the highway, cyclists can take the 15-mile ride north or south, or on the spur running down to the charming village of Chatham, without ever having to leave the trail. Places to rent bicycles are a walk or drive away. If you are bringing your own bicycles, we have a place for you to store them.

Cape Cod Bay, a 10-minute walk away, offers a low-tide experience to delight and excite. Walking out on the "flats" makes you wonder if you  walked far enough would you be able to reach the mainland. Just remember to watch the tide and head back in before it does. Experience sunset on the Bay. Take an evening stroll or drive to Rock Harbor and watch as the sun sinks into the waters. During the summer listen to the steel band that ushers in the night. Key West has nothing on Rock Harbor.

Rock Harbor is home to the largest sport fishing fleet on Cape Cod. Call the fleet for an exciting day of fishing - enjoying the challenge of snagging a striped bass or struggling with the feisty blue fish. Additional fishing adventures include fly-fishing and surf casting for stripers.

If golf is your passion, the Cape with a moderate year round climate and more than 40 courses, makes the Cape a golfer’s paradise.

One of the most awe inspiring sights is a short drive away in Provincetown. Here the the Humpback, the Right Whale, the Minke, Finback, and Pilot whales, as well as Dolphins, Porpoises, and Seals make their home off the Stellwagen Banks. Take a whale watching tour and enjoy the antics of the whales while learning of their habitat from the instructors on board. Taking pictures? Just point and click for some of the best shots of this monstrous mammal. If they get close enough to the boat, you can even get a whiff of the fish on its breath.

While in Provincetown, experience some of the best restaurants around. (www.wheretoeatcapecod.com). Take advantage of the boutique shopping, gallery hopping, and people watching. Climb the Pilgrim Monument (www.pilgrim-monument.org), and if you are a resident of Massachusetts, find your town stone in the wall. Also, there is an informative museum on the Pilgrims, depicting their way of life and the struggles they endured. Take a ride out on the dunes and witness another spectacular view of the sea. (www.artsdunetours.com) Race Point offers gorgeous sunsets and the recently restored Race Point Lighthouse operated by the Cape Cod Chapter of the American Lighthouse Foundation. (www.racepointlighthouse.net)

Midway between Provincetown and Wellfleet you will find that Truro sports Cape Cod’s premiere winery, Truro Winery. Cape Cod’s ocean breezes, well-drained sandy soil, and extended growing season combine to produce grapes with intense flavor and lush varietal character. The owner/operators invite to experience their fine wines, stroll through the vineyards, and picnic on their beautiful grounds. (www.Trurovineyard.com) In addition to the winery is an enchanting herb and spice factory. The Atlantic Spice Company offers exotic herbs, spices, oils, potpourri, teas, and books with wonderful ideas and recipes on how to use your fragrant purchases. The fragrance of the showroom alone is reward enough for a visit. Items offered include botanicals, extracts, nuts and seeds shelled, oils, culinary herbs and spices, spice blends and teas. Most all of these products are used on a daily basis at the Whalewalk Inn. (www.atlanticspice.com or call 800-316-7965)

A trip to Wellfleet is not to be missed. Where else can you go to a bookstore and have a lobster dinner? Saturday night is gallery tour night and not to be missed. Of course you can tour the galleries at any time, and we even provide a map to help you get around town. The Inn also has an interactive CD tour of Wellfleet that you may borrow. Wellfleet also hosts the only drive-in on Cape Cod. Enjoy first run double features. Built in 1957 it still offers the best deal anywhere. (www.welfleetcinemas.com) A visit to the beautiful Massachusetts Audubon Sanctuary will delight the avid bird watcher or those just wanting to commune with nature.

The fine arts and museums of eclectic tastes abound on the Cape. There are many playhouses hosting summer theatre groups for your enjoyment. There is a coffee house in Eastham, local restaurants have live music and jazz nights. Hyannis has the big blue tent where acts that span the generations come and perform-from Blues Traveler to Judy Collins and everything in-between. In Dennis you can experience the Cape Cod Playhouse, the oldest on the Cape. There are three movie theatres-Wellfleet, Harwich, and Hyannis. The Natural History Museum is in Brewster and many other museums dot the Cape. Sandwich has a glass museum and the Sandwich Plantation has beautiful renowned gardens. A great day trip to Plymouth abounds in the history of the area all done in a reenactment of that historical period.

Our location is central to the beautiful old Cape Cod towns along the north shore and Route 6A, designated one of the 10 most scenic highways in America. Beginning in Orleans you can create your own antique or gallery route. Visit the Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association, Inc. at www.ccada.com. Continuing through Brewster, antique shops and galleries abound for the ardent collector or the casual shopper. The General Store in Brewster will take you back in time - remember dot candy on strips of white paper? Heading down 28 ride along Pleasant Bay, which takes you to the elbow of the Cape and the town of Chatham, perhaps one of the loveliest towns around.

You can even plan a day trip to the islands of Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, or discover the “Living History of Plimoth Plantation.” In addition on your way to or from Providence, RI area, you may stop along the way in New Bedford which has a fine whaling museum and many interesting art and scrimshaw galleries. If you want to visit Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, the Whalewalk is 30 minutes from Hyannis where guests can a catch ferry and explore these 2 very distinct islands. There is regular air and ferry service to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, leaving from Hyannis year round, although schedules do vary seasonally. During the summer, it is wise to make reservations early, especially for Friday or Sunday travel. Or, you can choose to drive to Woods Hole or Falmouth Harbor, where the ferry ride is a short 40 minutes to the Vineyard. Plymouth is a 55-minute drive to exit 5 on route 93 north towards Boston. Here you will find the famed Plymouth Rock. In addition to the historic monuments and exhibits, like the Mayflower II, visit the shops and dine on the waterfront. Other places of interest include Plimoth Plantation, where day-to-day Pilgrim life is recreated in detail exactly as it was 350 years ago.