Sunday Oct 15 is Cape Cod day. The intent was to take leisure drive out the main route 6, then come back on 6A closer to the water. We began with a visit to Yarmouth altering the route to Hwy 28 after crossing the main bridge.
As one might expect there were sandy beaches in Yarmouth.

On to Chatham, home to a significant US Coast Guard station. On display the first production series lifeboat of it kind, a self righting 44ft cutter. Built in 1963 it serves two different tours at Chatham before being retired in 2009.

Then to Eastham where we visited a visitors center. The agent first told us about the lighthouse and also about the traffic delay due to a festival in Wellfleet. He then gave us a back roads route to avoid the traffic mess.
The lighthouse originally built in 1797 had to be moved 450 feet due to erosion of the cliffs in 1996. They purchased 10 acres of land in 1797 and toady less than 4 acres remain.
The road from there to Provincetown was primarily in the center of the island. Decades ago one could drive the 30 miles looking past the dunes to the water. That was not the case now. The dunes were taller and grown with vegetation. Then of course the thousands of condos.
Provincetown was much smaller than I remember with streets demanding they be one way. They had parking for 1 out of 5 cars in town and this was a cloudy Oct Sunday. Can't imagine what summertime traffic would be like.
The ride back on  6A, when it was separate from 6 was pretty much the same although it took us through some neat small towns. Very scenic drive but not much view of the water. Some of the neat buildings we saw.



The last one is A Coast Guard historical museum.

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