Saturday 9th Oct - Boston to Cape Cod

Docked in Boston at about 7:30 and were cleared through customs by 9am.  Caught a van to the airport to collect the car from Hertz and drove to Cape Cod.  We took the scenic route up the Cape Cod Bay side through lovely villages along the 6A Highway.  Stopped at the Marconi site where he sent the first transatlantic wireless message in January 1903.

Then took a walk around a boardwalked white cedar swamp but because of the density of the trees in the peat swamp, they'll be gone in 50 odd years taken over by red maples and oaks. 

Cape Cod is a strange ecological entity.  The Atlantic is taking away 3 feet of that side of Cape Cod per year and there are huge moving parabolic sanddunes that they are planting with course grasses to hold it together.

We stopped at a few beaches where the wind was blowing a 7 or 8 and the para-surfers were out in force.

We also saw them setting up for a wedding on the beach.  Here's the Vicar getting windswepped.

Then it was on to Provincetown where the Pilgrim Fathers first landed and there's a massive monument to them.  It's a raging gay town where nice young men dress up as women and sing nice gay songs to celebrate their gay pride. Hmmm.

Then back to our overnight stop at Sandwich at the lower end of the Cape.

Off tomorrow to Williamstown in the Green Mountain National Park.