Above, Boston’s waterfront early one morning; below, the coastline across Cape Cod Bay at Provincetown later that day, with the Pilgrim Monument visible in above the dunes.
This scale model of a ship is perhaps the main attraction of Provincetown’s lovely public library, whose exterior we showed you in the last post of this series.
One of P’town’s lighthouses – there are two that look pretty much identical, along the very narrow long strip that encloses P’town harbor and marks the true tail end of the long arm of Cape Cod, as seen from the breakwater as the tide slowly returned after a very low tide. If anyone’s confused by the way I’m switching around in country and continent with these posts, my apologies – after a slow winter where I didn’t get out too much after my last US visit (remember all those shots?), and even nearly ran out of legit shots for my Coasting, Islands, and Villages series…well, I’ve been out and about quite a lot since mid-July, and for the past week, I’ve been in Provincetown. Today I’m off to Star Island again — so you can search past entries which would be labeled New Hampshire, and very possibly tagged as Star Island, to get a sense of the sort of lovely views I hope to be adding to the mix in the weeks ahead. 🙂
I’ve spent the past week visiting Provincetown, at the tip end of Cape Cod, for the first time in more’n a decade. In the early 1900’s, Provincetown decided it was tired of Plymouth getting all Pilgrim credit, since apparently the Mayflower landed here first before traveling on and finally deciding upon Plymouth as their first village in this new colony. What you see above is nighttime P’town with the Pilgrim Monument – built to remind everyone of that fact – standing proud and tall on the right. 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 