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Provincetown: Dune Shack Keeps Sailors Entertained During Long Months on Vacation

July 14, 2006 at 10:33 AM | 0 Comments

Buying gifts for the folks back home in a beach town can be a real chore. Between seeing the same lobster-shaped oven mitts everywhere or fighting your way through the hoi polloi just to find that perfect tacky t-shirt, that gift shopping gets same-y faster than a redhead gets a sunburn. Happily, one store in Provincetown is an antidote to such homogenization: The Dune Shack.

Located slightly West of the ferry pier in the center of town, the Dune Shack has all sorts of unique collectibles and good gifts, including aquatic creature-based tchotchkes that are a bit more surreal than the average stuff. We came home with a sperm whale bottle opener, for example, although we were mightily tempted by the one shaped like a frighteningly realistic lobster claw. The store also sells scrimshaw made by local artists,  so head on over there for all your whalebone art needs.

[Image via JollyRoger05/Flickr]

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