What a difference a week makes in the weather on Cape Cod! Last Friday we were hiking the flats and having a glorious time! It was chilly, in the low 30s and breezy but very hikeable. You can see what it was like last week in the second photograph.
Yesterday I took a drive to Skaket Beach and took the same photograph that I took a week ago, only this one is filled with ice and snow and temps were in the low teens. Brrrr. Both photos were taken at low tide.
Pretty amazing, huh?
We hiked out on the flats to the Rock Harbor Channel, where the boats go in and out, on the Eastham side the other day. It was so much fun. I had never walked out that far or been so close to the channel markers before. You can see why boats can only use the channel close to high tide.
Pretty cool, don’t you think?
There are many beaches on Bay Cod Bay, as well as the Atlantic Ocean, in Eastham on Cape Cod. As you go from Orleans, to Eastham out to Wellfleet, the dunes get steeper and steeper.
I took this photograph at low tide on the beach in Eastham but closer to Wellfleet. It was amazing how tall the sand dunes were, compared to the other beaches in Eastham.
So pretty with the sun starting to go down, don’t you think?
We were driving back from town yesterday morning when we saw this fishing boat in the icy channel at Rock Harbor in Orleans. I took a few photos, thinking it was stuck in the ice.
We drove down to the pier and saw some of the crew working feverishly on board to get the outriggers down. We wondered how they would get off of the boat that was stuck in the ice.
Much to our surprise they started the engines up and took off through the ice, and very easily I might add, out to the rough seas. I realized that they couldn’t put the outriggers down going down the channel in the harbor as it is not wide enough so they had to stop at the mouth of the harbor to put them down. And then I researched what they are used for and learned that the outriggers widen the trolling area for fishing.
The moral of this story… don’t write the story before it plays out! I had it all written and then a nice surprise!
