Oh Wow. I grew up in Detroit but Cape Cod was our summer vacation. I never went out as far as you did! That was before Jaws. Yet I spent the rest of those summers waterskiing in a lake. I just never would have gone out where you did to swim. Such courage.
I went to the cape every summer since high school for about 30 years.
I’ve never set foot in the North Atlantic. I hate the beach.