Cape Cod

We are gradually getting adjusted from laidback Newfoundland to the hectic eastern seaboard.

Cape Cod was bustling with activities today and traffic was insane, we sat in one traffic jam for 30 minutes and went 3 miles. Crossing the bridge over the Cape Cod Canal the speed limit is 40 miles an hour until the end of the bridge when it gets reduced to 25 due to congestion and so many intersections and in the dark no one slowed down from 60 miles an hour, oh so happy to find our way safely back home.

We did have a wonderful day but it was about 8 hours to short, there is so much to see and just not enough time to do it in.

Our first stop was the community of Sandwich, the oldest town on the cape and it was very quaint. The house below is supposed to be the oldest in town, the Hoxie house.

Sitting at the public library this budding artist was busy at work.

The artisian well at the grist mill is supposed to have some of the purest water on the cape.

Down the road you get a good view of the Sandy Neck and here is the light on a very long strip of sand.

The Cape Cod National Park has a wonderful visitors center and the ranger gave us a couple suggestions as to what we should see. The whole shore around the cape looks like this, it is absolutely gorgeous.

Just down the road is the Nauset Beach Light.

Way up to the top of the Cape is Race Point and the beach was awesome.

Into Provincetown to see where the Pilgrims first landed November 11, 1620




In 1907 - 1908 they built the Pilgrim Monument and it is still open today.

116 steps to the top which does not sound like much but the rest is still ramps so lots of climbing but we did it.


This the the spot where the Pilgrims came ashore only to leave for Plymouth after a short time.




It was a beautiful spot.

We left the top of the cape at 3:30 thinking we could still get in Hyannis etc but then the traffic got so bad that by the time we got to Hyannis it was dark, oh well just means we have to come back some time in the future.