Summer's Gone (for practical purposes) But Memories are Reinforced by Pictures (isn't what many pictures do?)

Marconi Beach by the Atlantic ocean where erosion from last year's storm ate lots of the cliffs. The Marconi station is long gone, swallowed by the sea, but the pavilion was removed earlier this year as it hung close to the cliff. Cape Cod has been shaped by the retreating glaciers (23,000 and 19,000 thousand years ago) and by the ocean currents and the fierce winds.

Very few places on the Eastern seaboard of the US get to experience sunsets over water, but Cape Cod has it. This is Rock Harbor beach at high tide. At low tide you can walk for a mile or more from this vantage point.

These "trees" mark the channel into the harbor but it's passable only when the tide is high enough.

Rock Harbor

Wellfleet

Wellfleet

Lots of places to kayak all over the cape. You'd need several summers to say you've done most of them.

Some of the rustbuckets in Wellfleet harbor. Fishing and clam harvesting is a staple on the cape.

Found Gold in Cape Cod

There's gold if you know where to look for it; it's true in Cape Cod and many other wonderful places. It's also having the right attitude towards life and those around us. Obviously, experiencing moments of awe are best with the right company, don't you agree?

Rock Harbor "beach" at low tide, which every time I've there is around sunset (summer).

RH is not technically a beach (hence it's a no-fee place). During the day there's sufficient water (depending on the tides) for swimming but as you can see from these two pictures you can walk for a mile out during low tide.

This area, inside the cape is far away enough from the mainland (MA) that sunsets over water are possible on the eastern coast. Also, there is a long stretch of many miles called "the flats" because there isn't much depth. On this general location there's the First Encounter beach--which is where the Mayflower Pilgrims encountered the natives in 1620. Most people don't know that the Mayflower hit Cape Cod first and anchored in Provincetown for 50 days before moving to the mainland and establishing the colony at Plymouth.

Changed the camera settings a bit, from "program" to "scenes/sunset" to get a slightly different pictures, but both are golden in my book.

Rock Harbor at high tide, around 11 am when the boats can finally leave the pier and go fishing.

South of the pictured old Coast Guard station

I took this picture above after hiking for a couple miles under a very hot sun to Indian Rock. This rock was used by the natives to sharpen tools and polish stuff. Those grooves and shiny surfaces are evident of that. This modern human used it to dry his soaking t-shirt--which was accomplished in a couple minutes given the high heat.  [Disclaimer: this rock is exposed to the elements and laying a wet cotton shirt on it didn't damage it, so please no complaints, thank you.]

Chatham beach, at the eastern part of the cape, looking at the Atlantic ocean

Chatham is at the easternmost Cape Cod; seems more upscale with expensive country clubs and estates. But, the best deal is at the Fish Market Pier where I had the best fish & chips ever--a big chunk of very fresh cod cooked to perfection! Twin lobster (steamed free) for $9/lb!

Nice seafood can be found in Wellfleet too whose oysters are world-famous. Nice little town with galleries and stuff.