Race Point Lighthouse, at the very tip of Cape Cod.
Provincetown
1910 Pilgrim Monument, you can buy a ticket and walk to the top - we didn't! Walked on the beautiful beaches instead!
Look at those Gargoles!
Harbor at Provincetown
We stopped at a grocery store and this was the edge of their parking lot, just take your boat to the store to get milk and bread... How cool is that?
Steeple on the library.
"Tourists" - statue in front of the library.
Rental cottages along the beach; we saw many versions of this on the cape, most are arranged in a circle around a central courtyard or in a long line right on the beach. Thank you Govenor Tom McCall for making Oregon's beaches, public beaches. All along the Atlantic coast we've seen private property fences so you can't go any further down the beach!
A garage along the road outside of Truro - Jenny, this one's for you!
Marilyn Monroe
Thoreau called Cape Cod "the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts" and at this spot we are standing halfway between the elbow and the fist. It is about a mile across; here is the Atlantic Ocean and looking across you can see...
Cape Cod Bay.
Marconi's telegraph stood here for 100 years until the changing sands of Cape Cod toppled it into the sea! The first transatlantic wireless message was sent in January 1903 from President Teddy Roosevelt to King Edward VII of England. This transmitter also received the distress signals of the Titanic!
The wireless transmitter station once stood here on Marconi Bluff.
This is an old photo of what the wireless station looked like long ago.
DON'T SWIM in these waters!
No one was even on the beach!
Salt Marsh
Coast Guard station in the distance, no matter which way we looked the salt ponds and marshes were all around us! Beautiful!
While we were at the salt marsh, this woman was painting it!
Cranberries for sale - I stopped and bought a bag of fresh cranberries for $5.00.
This looks like a pond but it's a flooded cranberry bog.
Cranberry bog before it's flooded, the ground is very spongy. Cranberries are harvested in October by flooding the bog and raking the berries.
Cranberries...
We saw lots of old houses decorated for fall with small pumpkins above the door or windows!
Construction workers on Bourne Bridge over Cape Cod Bay.
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