Our B&B in Yarmouth Port is beautiful. The owners spent three years on renovation before opening their accommodation this year. The home was built in 1827 and required a rebuild from the foundation up. The neighborhood is full of similar homes, all historic, well-maintained, with ample landscaped grounds. We cross the street, walk down a quiet lane, and within a few blocks are looking out across the extensive marshland to the ocean.
No one lives in this very old cottage, but it demonstrates the wood shingle siding which is so prevalent on Cape Cod.
Craftsmen from England have been imported to re-thatch the roof on this old barn. The main home on this coastal property (and many nearby properties) is truly impressive but too well-screened from the road to get a good photo.
A church at Chatham; getting ready for Thanksgiving. Did you know that the Pilgrims stopped at Cape Cod before continuing to Plymouth? We saw wild turkeys everyday and everywhere on the Cape. If you enlarge the photo, you can see that the church was founded in 1720.
Expensive homes on extensive landscaped grounds abound on the Cape; and many beautiful yachts moored nearby. We loved just driving and looking at the amazing neighborhoods.
The entire Cape Cod peninsula seems to be a mix of residential areas on large lots, small towns, and areas set aside for parks and nature preserves. Very pretty! We drove out to Provincetown on the tip of the "hook" on our first day. Not overly impressed, as it seemed to be your classic tourist trap. Beach, restaurants, snack stands, curio shops, and offers of boat tours. We are almost at season's end, with some shops already with signs announcing "closed until May 20". But there are still plenty of lookers; imagine how crowded it must be in summer!
We also visited Chatham, where one of the oldest lighthouses in the US still functions. Neighborhoods of the most beautiful homes along the shore. Part of the appeal are the large, unique and beautifully landscaped grounds that these homes sit on.
Commercial fishermen still work out of Chatham harbor.
We stopped in Hyannis for lunch at a Peruvian restaurant. (While traveling we often eat only two meals per day: late breakfast, then dinner at 2-3pm.). We viewed the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port; nice but not amazing. I envisioned it as being off by itself, but it is surrounded by other very nice homes.
Extensive marshlands along the north shore in places. This view is at Gray's Beach.
Sunset at Corporate Beach. We took a long walk along the beach while waiting for sunset.
The entire Cape Cod peninsula seems to be a mix of residential areas on large lots, small towns, and areas set aside for parks and nature preserves. Very pretty! We drove out to Provincetown on the tip of the "hook" on our first day. Not overly impressed, as it seemed to be your classic tourist trap. Beach, restaurants, snack stands, curio shops, and offers of boat tours. We are almost at season's end, with some shops already with signs announcing "closed until May 20". But there are still plenty of lookers; imagine how crowded it must be in summer!
We also visited Chatham, where one of the oldest lighthouses in the US still functions. Neighborhoods of the most beautiful homes along the shore. Part of the appeal are the large, unique and beautifully landscaped grounds that these homes sit on.
We stopped in Hyannis for lunch at a Peruvian restaurant. (While traveling we often eat only two meals per day: late breakfast, then dinner at 2-3pm.). We viewed the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port; nice but not amazing. I envisioned it as being off by itself, but it is surrounded by other very nice homes.
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