Day 5 - Cape Cod
Today we spent the entire day out on the Cape. We really had no idea what we would do, we just got in the car with towels and swimsuits in the trunk and started driving. We have Grandma and Grandpa D in the car with us so that makes 9 in our 8 passenger suburban. It's a little tight. Grandma and Grandpa are REALLY patient to sit back there with those wild kids! (Just so I don't look like a total jerk...I have offered several times to give up my front seat but they will have none of it. They are just WAY too nice!) I really do have the best in-laws in the world. Really!
We had ice cream in Hyannis. Went to lighthouses and had a picnic in Nauset. Took a lighthouse tour and walked along the ocean at the Highland/Cape Cod Lighthouse. Played in the ocean, watched seals, went beachcombing and walked a mile to a seal colony on Head of the Meadow Beach (my favorite part of the day). Sat in the lifeguard chair at Race Point Beach. Ate pizza and burgers at Provincetown Pizza in Provincetown. Drove the 1.5 hr drive back home without a stitch of traffic.
Kira and I saw a huge seal, it's entire body horizontal, in a wave as it rose, crested and broke in a wave just barely offshore. Just a few yards down from where a group of 4 teenage boys were body surfing. Those boys were out of the water in about 10 seconds flat! It looked so cool. And HUGE! These are not the harbor seals I'm used to in Washington. They have those here too, but these are huge Grey Seals that get up to 400-500 pounds!
We had ice cream in Hyannis. Went to lighthouses and had a picnic in Nauset. Took a lighthouse tour and walked along the ocean at the Highland/Cape Cod Lighthouse. Played in the ocean, watched seals, went beachcombing and walked a mile to a seal colony on Head of the Meadow Beach (my favorite part of the day). Sat in the lifeguard chair at Race Point Beach. Ate pizza and burgers at Provincetown Pizza in Provincetown. Drove the 1.5 hr drive back home without a stitch of traffic.
Kira and I saw a huge seal, it's entire body horizontal, in a wave as it rose, crested and broke in a wave just barely offshore. Just a few yards down from where a group of 4 teenage boys were body surfing. Those boys were out of the water in about 10 seconds flat! It looked so cool. And HUGE! These are not the harbor seals I'm used to in Washington. They have those here too, but these are huge Grey Seals that get up to 400-500 pounds!
At the top of Highland Light House. Great tour. I could imagine being a lighthouse keeper in the late 1700s. Hauling 2 buckets of whale oil 4 times a night up 69 steps to keep the light going. Remembering to close the curtains each morning so the light and oil don't spontaneously combust with the heat of the sun through the windows. Having to heat the whale oil in the winter because it would be solid in the cold and wouldn't pour. Very interesting!
I love it when they like each other!
At the Salt Pond Visitor's Center at the Cape Cod National Seashore
Nauset Lighthouse.
Love these two!
Calvin gettin' sassy!
She really is taller than me...aaaah! :)
Seriously.
Calvin: "Let's make it a tradition to play soccer on every beach we go to." I'm good with that!
Head of the Meadow Beach, Cape Cod, MA
The most beautiful beach for miles. If it wasn't for the abundance of seals and the great white warnings, it would be perfect!
Fish heads. We used hand sanitizer a few hours later in the car so we're good, right?
A huge colony of seals on the beach. Remember the "don't swim near seals" sign?
Me and my favorite person.
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