PHOTOS: Cape Cod

[Cotuit]

My boyfriend and I took a trip down to the Cape this weekend to visit my family. I took way too many pictures along the way, here's some of them...

Woods Hole

My boyfriend is a big fan of the film Jaws, which was filmed on Martha's Vineyard. We are trying to plan a trip to the Vineyard later this summer, in the meantime we took a ride down to Woods Hole so we could look across Vineyard Sound and at least see the island.

Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Steamship Authority pier in Woods Hole. This is the auto ship to Martha's Vineyard. The crossing takes about a half hour.

Sign to Martha's Vineyard. This is where cars line up to board the ferry.

Downtown Woods Hole. Woods Hole is a village at the extreme southwestern tip of Cape Cod. It is part of the Town of Falmouth, bordered by Buzzards Bay to the west and Vineyard Sound to the south and east. Woods Hole is best known as the home to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and Robert Ballard, who found the wreck of the Titanic.

The Steamship on it's way to The Vineyard.

Further up the coast towards Falmouth Heights along the Shining Sea Bikepath, this used to be a rail connection from Boston to the ferry at Woods Hole.

[Cotuit]

Cotuit

Cotuit is the village I grew up in, hence my username. It is a village in the Town of Barnstable, located on the south coast of The Cape.

At the Oyster Company on Cotuit Bay

Little bit down the bay, Ropes Beach.

The Cotuit Grocery Company, AKA The Coop. Unfortunately they are renovating, so it looks like crap.

Cotuit Federated Church.

The Kettle Ho, a restaurant on Main Street, so named because it is said that settlers bought the village from the Wampanoag's for a kettle and a ho.

Town Dock

Ran into my aunt and uncle on their boat at the town dock.

[Cotuit]

Hyannis

Hyannis is known as the Hub of the Cape. It is the business centre of the Cape and the centre of the 222,000 person metropolitan area. The nearby village of Hyannisport was the location of President Kennedy's Summer White House, the Kennedy Compound.

Chart House Village, a not very successful New Urbanism development, part of the problem, it is surrounded by parking lots. This area is about 20-25 years old. The village is making strides to densify and mix development, so hopefully this area will be revisited soon.

Main Street

Mmmmm, Kandy Korner.

Hyannis Village Library

JFK Museum, this used to be the Town Building.

The current Town Building, former Normal School. The Normal School teaching college eventually became Cape Cod Community College (CCCC). CCCC now has a campus in Barnstable Village on the north side of the Cape.

Hyannis Village Green and the Walkway to the Sea.

Hyannis Inner Harbour and the Ocean Street Docks.

The Nantucket Steamship returning to Hyannis.

Back on Main Street

Small beach in the neighbouring town of Yarmouth.

[Cotuit]

On the Bay

On Sunday we went out on my uncle's boat spending the day on Cotuit Bay.

We had to head out of the bay to empty the head. My cousin is following us in his new boat.

Heading back into West Bay.

A Crosby Cat Boat race in the Sepuit River.

Took some pictures of the houses I want to buy when I win the Megabucks. These homes are on a private island called Oyster Harbors, part of the village of Osterville.

One last pic from the flying bridge looking across Sampson's Island out to Nantucket Sound.

[BigCityAttitude]

Wow, great photos. I've never been out in that area, though I'd like to.

[Allan]

Great pics!

[DigitalSky]

I'm going to bump this old thread... these pictures are wonderful. Cape Cod is so gorgeous!!