Ann Murray sang the song about "falling in love with Old Cape Cod".... it was easy to see what she was singing about...I think Patty Page did the original version of the song....anyway, we managed to heed the songs advice. From our visit to Plymouth rock on up, it was a great experience. We actually learned that the puritans from England that sailed over in the Mayflower, actually landed North of Plymouth in a place called Provincetown....we visited there as well and found this out...it was a year earlier than Plymouth before they sailed down the coast and established the settlement there! Who knew?
Here is the famous "Plymouth Rock" at the waterside in Plymouth. Note the date on the stone!
I have to sign off right now, but will pick this up on my next session....stay tuned!
OK... the story continues....we have moved again and are now in New Brunswick on our way to PEI in the morning....those blog entries will appear later, internet access depending!
We saw the replica Mayflower in the harbour and had a hard time visualizing the 66 days at sea on their crossing!
We traveled around this area quite extensively and made it up to Provincetown where the first landing took place....pretty much a sand dune type area so no surprise they moved down the Coast to find some fertile land. There is a huge monument erected on top of a hill there and the views from the top were breathtaking!
Of course, light houses are an interest of mine, so Maye indulged s by finding some to check out along the way. This one was just down from Provincetown and had alternating coloured lens of white and red. Quite unique.
In Maye's thirst for information, she picked up a guide book from the Pilgrim Monument and read about a phenomena in the area at a Grist Mill where herring spawn in the river about this time of year...off we went! Just happened to be the best day of the best year in ages for returning herring and the river was teeming with fish. We watched as some gulls descended into the area and had their meal of fish! We learned that these are special Herring Gulls and no other species of Gull has the ability to "fish" and ingest fish of this size in one piece! Quite a spectacle to behold!
The area had fish ladders built much like what we have seen for Salmon....difference being, the herring come back every year and don't die after spawning....just keep returning for about five years each year at this time. The figure they wait in the ocean until the stream temp is just so, then up they come. Fascinating to say the least!
On the way back to our campsite, we visited the Town of Barnstable and checked out the beaches there. Just beautiful.....our intrigue came from our visit to Barnstable in England a few years back....the British influences in the names were remarkable!
Blue sky, water and beautiful sand.....what more could you ask for!
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