Cape Cod 2003

Monday, September 1
Labor Day, early this year, but an extra day off from work. We got up fairly early and packed up our tent and loaded the kayak. It went pretty quickly. We wanted to have breakfast at a restaurant we had been to in the past, but found that it had gone out of business. Settled on another restaurant and had a good breakfast there. While eating, Joan looked out the window and noticed a store across the road that sold stained glass and other handmade glassware. After a short wait for the store to open, we went inside and found some very nice things. I was particularly attracted to a large stained glass image of a Great Blue Heron. Only the price prevented me from buying it. We settled, instead, for a smaller Common Tern. One of the owners of the shop mentioned that the Museum of Natural History in Brewster had purchased some of his stained glass windows. He said that the museum had nice exhibits and recommended that we stop there.

Instead of taking the major road, Route 6, we drove along Route 6A and went through some of the towns. The road had lower speed limits, but was less congested and certainly more attractive than Route 6. We arrived in Brewster to find that the museum was closed, but we saw that there was a nature trail behind it and spent a good amount of time there. Nothing unusual in the line of birds but we did get a good feel for salt marsh and bay.

We drove on to Barnstable where we stopped in several places to look at the harbor and saw our only Osprey of the trip there. We stopped off in Rhode Island for a brief visit with my niece and her family and then headed home.

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