Pleasant Bay

Pleasant Bay is a protected anchorage on the elbow of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, tucked behind a barrier beach that keeps things calm and genuinely serene. You drop the hook here and get sweeping views of the outer beach with Nauset Light nearby, plus easy access to explore the surrounding salt marshes and wildlife refuges by dinghy. It's one of the larger coastal bays on the Cape, so there's room to breathe and plenty of natural scenery to soak in.