Rain, rain, go away

Monday - After our anniversary celebration it started raining, not a hard rain, but enough to spoil going outside and the temp started to drop and the wind picked up. It  went on all night long and all day Monday. Our plan was to visit Jamestown, which we did and then drove over the bridge to Newport, RI. We wanted to see all the XXL size mansions, drive down Broadway Ave. and stroll along the 3 1/2 mile Cliff Walk. Not this trip - we didn't even get out of the car except to visit the Welcome Center and get some local maps. And, no pictures, you'll have to google Newport unless you've already been there, done that. We figured it was still early and it was still raining so we drove on over to Cape Cod and got a campsite for two nights.

Tuesday - We'll staying in the town of Sandwich which is on the north side of the Cape just over the Cape Cod Canal which claims to be the widest sea-level canal without locks in the world. I mention that as it would be good for trivia if you ever play at Sandy Bottoms. Interesting ,over 20K ships pass through the canal every year and quite frankly I never even knew that there was a Cape Cod Canal. By the time we got going the rain had stopped, thank goodness, and we drove to Provincetown which is in what they call the Outer Cape, actually the most northerly part of the Cape.

Provincetown has a real working waterfront. There are heavy duty fishing boats, whale watching boats and many moorings in the harbor for private yachts. There is a also a terminal for ferry boats from both Plymouth and Boston. Those are lobster pots in the foreground.

We didn't see the lighthouse at Province town but the Pilgrim Monument was very visible, the tallest granite structure in the U.S. They tell me the the Pilgrims first landed here in 1620 and spent five weeks exploring before sailing on to Plymouth.

On the way back to Sandwich we drove past the Cape Cod National Seashore and the next blog may have a picture cause it's on Susan's iPhone. This lighthouse, for some reason has two names. It's called both the Highland Light and the Cape Cod Light.  **

**  Lou forgot the best thing about Provincetown - the street food by the dock.  We had linguica in a homemade Portuguese roll.  Yum Yum.  -  Susan