Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail

The Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail has been on my 'local bucket list' ever since I read about it on multiple websites, saying that it's one of the best trails in the state.  The trail can be accessed from the parking lot of the Marconi Site.  Incidentally, they have a comfort station at the trailhead which was a godsend.  Just sayin'.  The trail is only 1 mile.

I was glad that this was a mostly downhill and flat trail.  

Russell decided to wait for me to finish the loop instead of going all the way to the end.  But I really wanted to see the boardwalk part of it so I went on.

It was so quiet you could hear the ocean waves washing up on the beach.

 

Foliage! Woo!

I didn't see the dinosaur that was making these tracks.  😅😅

He headed back to the parking lot on his side of the trail while I finished the loop and we came out at the entrance where the trails meet. The sun was starting to come out too.

We finished off our morning explorations with excellent sandwiches from Sam's Deli in Eastham.

Wellfleet & Cape Cod National Seashore

Continuing on with our attempts to get out and do more stuff that isn't the regular mundane 'adulting', we took a drive up to Wellfleet and the Cape Cod National Seashore.  I wanted to go back and shoot the creepy looking Masonic hall on a cloudy day too.  It may look cloudy and cool but it was actually very warm and humid.  Again.  

Uncle Tim's Bridge

It'd be neat to get this shot with more dramatic clouds but the effect I was going for still worked.

I thought this place would be more decked out for fall but apparently the Masons aren't down with that.

Wellfleet Harbor

Next we went to the National Seashore, to the Marconi Site where the first one-way wireless transmission to England was made in 1903 (but in 1901 he was able to contact Newfoundland).

The radio transmission antennas weren't up for too many years due to erosion which continues to be a problem up there.  Lighthouses have had to be carefully moved inland a few times, but the cliff's edge moves back too.  

I was last at this place in 1974 and there was still a concrete platform that was left.  Now it's gone. 

It's a fairly wild/desolate area and there are quite a few fences up prohibiting people from going up on the dunes. I would think it would be obvious but some people would do it anyway.  It's a long drop to the beach below.

The Atlantic.