Friday, October 16, 2009

We visited Cape Cod and the Cape Cod National Seashore today. Two national park visitor centers, two movies about Cape Cod, and half a dozen stops alone the seashore. The weather was cold, 46 degrees with winds around 40 mph on the beach. You could feel the sand hitting your face as we tried to walk the beach. We also stopped at two light houses. (Attached is a picture of one of the light houses for Mim.) There was a real need for light houses because thousands of ships were lost off the north end of the Cape over the years. The Coast Guard originated on the north end of the Cape because of the need to try to rescue the ship wreck victims. The danger of sailing around the Cape in the fall and winter of the year was so dangerous that they dug a cannel near Sagamore/ Sandwich around 1900.

Marconi sent his first wireless message from the ocean side of Cape Cod.

Cape Cod is very commercial with hundreds of shops and restaurants. There are lots of beautiful homes that overlook the ocean. Quite a few are for sale, and I’m not sure if that’s normal or effects of the economy.
We stopped at the JFK museum in Hyannis, but we got there too late in the day to get inside (quite a disappointment for Connie). We also didn’t get a chance to stop at Sandwich where the Sandwich Glass Co. Museum and gift shop is located. There just isn’t enough time to see or do all that we really wanted to do! That gives us lots of reasons to come back to this area.