#118 Province Town, Cape Cod, MA 7-7 and 8-09

We stayed at Adventure Bound Camping Resort for two nights. We came in during a light rain, but it stopped long enough for us to set up camp.

We are in pine trees. Cute trees with twisted trunks. Everything is tight. The trees are close together and the roads are narrow. But, this campground is right on the shuttle route into Province Town. Or P Town as the locals call it.

The campground is located in North Truro. This post office is where part of the Blues Brothers movie was filmed. The picture below is a signed poster given to the P.O. by the stars. Pretty cool.

The first day we were there, we drove about 7-8 miles into P’town and just looked around. We also ate at a great seafood restaurant that was recommended to us by our campground host. It was delicious. Parking is at a premium. The streets are very narrow, and Commercial—the main street—is one way. We had to drive around about three times in order to find the restaurant and a place to park.

Some of the beach homes in P’town. The one above has the figurehead off a ship on top of the porch. I thought that was very different.

Yea, a purple house. I like it!

The top story is called a widow’s walk. From there the wives of the fishermen and sailors looked out over the ocean to see if their husbands were coming home.

The downtown area along the wharf is very artsy. We saw at least 20 different art studios. This building was over the top with the artwork painted all over.

By this time we had enough. It had rained hard while we were eating dinner and during part of our drive home to the RV. I had made reservations to go whale watching on a late afternoon trip. Hopefully the rain will stay away while we are out on the water.

The next day we did our household chores. Frank did laundry while I cleaned and vacuumed. Then we drove back to P’town—the closest grocery store, and refilled the larders. By that time it was time to catch the shuttle into town for our whale watch trip. By taking the shuttle, we didn’t have to worry about parking the car and the shuttle let us off right by the pier where we catch the boat.

Just for Laurie—we made sure and ate something before we boarded the boat. The swells at sea were four to five feet high. A nice cup of clam chowder and a hunk of fried bread hit the spot! It is now 4:30 an time to board. So far, so good. Over cast skies, slight breeze, but no rain!

We had to drive around the very tip of the Cape to get out to the ocean where the whales feed and play!

Check out the sky. I see a little bit of blue in the upper right hand corner. Maybe we will be going that way. We had to pass at least three lighthouses. This one is at the very tip of the Cape. Beautiful beaches—just too cold for swimming. Weather is in the 60’s.

It took us a good half hour to sight our first whale, and then we found a pod of eight.

Our first sighting, a whale blowing in the distance.

You can count four of them in the picture above.

Everyone wants a picture of the whale jumping beside the boat.

He’s waving to us with his flipper!

They are breaching, over and over. Between the rocking of the boat and the speed that the whale comes out of the water, the picture above is an amazing shot. I hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed watching the whales play.

That is his flukes (tail) slapping the water. He did it over and over again, but so fast I couldn’t get the picture with his tail out of the water.

He is getting ready to dive and then he will come up and breach. Awesome!

Waving good-by to us as we have to leave and head back to port. Thank you whales for a great show! There were two siblings playing and doing all their “tricks.” The Marine Biologist aboard the boat with us had names for both of the siblings. They were a year apart in age, and even though I call them by the male gender, the gender was unknown.

We headed back to the shuttle and back to the campground, after doing a little gift shopping, and were home just as it got dark. What a great adventure this day turned out to be. And we didn’t have to use our umbrellas. You can see in the pictures that the sky was dark and cloudy, but it didn’t rain the entire time we were on the boat.

Both of us were really good sailors and rode the waves without a sign of sea sickness. Too busy watching the whales and having a great time.

Tomorrow we head to Plymouth, MA to see the rock!