The rental house is a great post and beam Cape Cod style cottage that can sleep up to 8 people. The nice thing is that two of the bedrooms had queen beds so each couple had one. Ours is on the second floor in a room with a pitched ceiling. The entire house is wood with exposed large wood beams and shiplap on every wall and ceiling. All that wood makes it a little dark inside, but a wonderful feature is the deck outside. It makes us feel like we are right in the woods as if we’re camping. I’ll add some more photos of the place during the week.
This being Sunday, Jo wanted to go to mass. Conveniently, there was a Catholic Church 4 minutes away. Jo and I went to mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church. It’s a beautiful church, very light and airy, in a half-round configuration. There’s a wonderful stained glass window taking up a whole wall on the side of the building.
Jo and I chatted with Father Hugh after the service and told him we were from New York. He was also from New York, Westchester County, and when he heard we were from Binghamton, he said, “oh, way up there!” I told him we don’t think of it as being upstate so much, but then I cracked him up by telling him my standard saying, “people think anything north of the George Washington Bridge is upstate.” It was a nice church and nice service.
We had lunch at the house and then packed up for an afternoon at the beach. We’ve been watching the weather forecast for the Cape. It’s a good thing we didn’t come last week because there was heavy rain 4 or 5 days from Hurricane Jose that was offshore in the Atlantic. I was afraid that maybe Hurricane Maria would influence our weather. This week, it starts off pretty good, but by the end of the week it will be cooler and possibly rainy. If we want beach days, we need to do them early in the week.
The house is actually in South Wellfleet, an area we are not familiar with. We chose to head to the area called Indian Neck. The drive along Cove Road was beautiful. The road curved around a salt marsh and ended up at a breakwater across the harbor from the Wellfleet town pier. We schlepped all our gear over the dune and onto the beach. It was a great spot over looking Wellfleet Harbor!
It is a beautiful beach day – bright blue sky, low winds, temperature about 72 degrees, no clouds – perfect! The water is pretty cold, though, and kind of yucky with lots of algae, so no one went swimming. No matter. It was just heavenly being on the beach. We were close to the marina entrance around the breakwater so we enjoyed watching the boats coming and going.
I took a walk down the beach and enjoyed the scenery.
After a couple of hours on the beach, we took a drive around the Wellfleet area enjoying the beautiful scenery. Christine wanted to have dinner at the Bookstore Restaurant and enjoy the sunset so we went back to the house to rest up a bit and freshen up. This is what Reva does after a hard day at the beach.
We drove back into Wellfleet to the Bookstore Restaurant and sat outside on the second floor deck. It was a nice view of the harbor and we relaxed over a good meal.
Since it was Christine’s 3rd month anniversary of her birthday, Reva and Jo treated us to dinner, which was such a nice thing for them to do. The sunset wasn’t very special since there were no clouds to enhance the dusk, but still, it was pleasant, until the mosquitoes started devouring us. We decided to leave in a hurry.
After dinner we drove to the ocean side to see the Atlantic. It was dark, but we headed to Cohoon Hollow Beach but couldn’t find a parking area, and then on down Ocean View Dr. to White Crest Beach. There was a parking area there parked and got out of the car and stood at the edge of a dune that was quite a drop off to the beach below. Although dark, we could see and hear the churning surf and feel and smell the salt water. It was great. Again, this was all new territory for Christine and I and we want to drive back that way in daylight so we can see the views.
Back to the house we went and had a fairly early bedtime. It is exhausting having a beach day!
