Excited to have a 50-degree day in December, we headed to
the Cape to explore the area.
We found a letterbox at a nice little park overlooking the
Cape Cod Canal. Then we went to Buzzards
Bay Recreation Area where we saw the Cape Cod Canal railroad bridge
and Bill began the 7-mile bike ride along the mainland side of
the Cape Cod Canal Bikeway.
If you look carefully at the picture above you can see Bill in
neon green heading to the canal bikeway. Here is a sign that shows the bike
paths.
He biked under the two bridges to Cape Cod and then we met
at Scusset Beach State Reservation.
We actually took a similar picture at the Pacific.
We then headed to Falmouth where Bill bicycled the Shining
Sea Bikeway from North Falmouth to Woods Hole and then back to meet Barbara for
a total of about 13 miles. The bikeway
goes past cranberry bogs
and the ocean.
Barbara found a few letterboxes: one near the grave of
Katherine Lee Bates, author of America the Beautiful. The Shining Sea Bikeway got its name from a
line from America the Beautiful. Given
our cross country travels, we love that line "from sea to shining sea."
Bill also hiked to the Punch Bowl, a pretty pond in Beebe
Woods. This land and other tracts are owned by the 300 Committee,
a Falmouth land trust founded in 1986 on the 300th anniversary of the Town of
Falmouth.
