We decided that following our dismal lighthouse viewing of yesterday that we should make amends today so headed off to Nauset Beach Light where we knew we could get four (or more accurately two) lighthouses for our efforts. Nauset Beach Light is the currently functioning lighthouse but just half a mile inland are the Three Sisters Lighthouses that used together to form the lighthouse operating at Nauset Beach. This was in the days before unique flashing patterns ...

You might have thought that we would have had enough of whale watching by now but it seems not: maybe it's like the scratch card gamblers we've just been watching at South Station in Boston whilst waiting to board our train to New York (yes, we're using a train journey to catch up on blog writing again) - activity reinforced by random reward? So Friday saw us heading off to the far tip of Cape Cod to take the Dolphin Fleet whale watching tour from Provincetown. ...

Another lovely day here in Paradise: we are soooooo lucky! We had a relaxing morning enjoying the sunshine on the beautiful white sandy beach at South Cape Beach, a State Park. We're not sure if there was no Ranger there because of the USA Government budget problems or whether now that we are in October and therefore out-of-season the State Park is not manned. We had heard that State Park Offices would be closed because of the Government's inability to agree a bu...

More sunshine which we were particularly glad of today as we took the high-speed ferry from nearby Hyannis to the famous island of Nantucket. Jill does not like being indoors on boat trips so the warm sun meant we were comfortable on deck for the fast crossing. An hour, a coffee and a muffin later and we were coasting into photogenic Nantucket Harbour. To do Nantucket justice probably requires an overnight stop and some form of transport other than our walking s...

More sunshine and shorts today. We'd had enough of spending too much time in the hire car (the Kia's got no Soul despite its name, although it does have Satellite Radio, as had the previous hire car, and we can get soul on that) so we headed off to a relatively nearby bit of coast near Falmouth on the south-east end of Cape Cod. The information about walking and trails on Cape Cod is a bit limited but we were delighted with our discovery of Quissett Harbor and th...