August 28, 2018 - Cape Cod
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| It was just a short hop over to the southern tip of Cape Cod. |
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Monomoy Lighthouse. About the only thing out here.
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| Heading north to Cape Cod proper. |
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The water was shallow and clear. I could see the sandy bottom. It reminded me of flying the Bahamas.
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| When I reached Cape Cod proper I turned west. I wanted to check out Hyannis Port. Can you guess why? |
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| I wanted to see the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port. This is as close as I could get without entering the nearby Barnstable Municipal Airport's Class D airspace. I didn't even really know what I was looking for. Later, I would learn that the Kennedy Compound is southeast of the airport so I wasn't even close. |
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| Flying around the Swan Pond River area. |
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Flying around the Harwich Port area.
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| Chatham Municipal Airport in the southeast corner of Cape Cod. I was monitoring their Unicom frequency and it was quite busy. |
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Stage Harbor. It's all new to me.
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| Now flying north up the east side of Cape Cod, alongside a long, sandy barrier island, obviously very popular with the boaters. |
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| This is not an island which explains the vehicles. |
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| Living the dream! |
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Continuing north.
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Passing by a banner tower. Notice how much higher the tow-plane to the right is than the banner.
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| It's never what you imagined. I've always pictured Cape Cod as this sandy, tree-less giant sand bar. As you can see, the northern part is all forest. |
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With cliffs on the eastern shore.
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| The beach-goers will find a way. That is Marconi Beach. |
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| Highland Links Golf Course |
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Now I can see Cape Cod's distinctive fishhook turn to the west.
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| As I rounded the northern side, I saw all these black shapes down in the water. Seals? Dolphins? Sharks? |
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| A close-up. I wonder what they are? |
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| Rounding the northern edge. |
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Provincetown Municipal Airport. Land, park and walk to the beach!
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Looking east now.
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| Race Point Lighthouse. |
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The surf hitting the shore made an interesting pattern.
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| Looking north at Provincetown. |
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A close-up of Provincetown.
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The Pilgrim Monument was built between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the signing of the Mayflower Compact in Provincetown Harbor. This 252-foot campanile is the tallest all-granite structure in the United States. There is a museum at its base.
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