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This is where we had been last weekend. It's a nice little place by the sea located in Massachussets. Cape cod is ideally a place where you should land up with atleast a week to spare. Well, that's the way with most of the places around US. You can cover them in a day or two, but to really enjoy it to the core, you need some more time on your hands. But as usual, we had only a weekend on our hands and we decided to cover as much as possible within two days.

We landed up at Hyannis (thats the place where you can see the dotted line leading to Nantucket). First we booked a place in an Inn where we planned to stay for the night. Our original plan was to cover Nantucket Island on the first day, but since it was already a bit late in the evening, we decided to go whale-watching instead. Whale-watching was an amazing experience - we were on one of the lucky trips (at-least that's what the naturalist on board said) where we saw atleast 15 different whales all around us. It was truly humbling to watch such huge creatures all around us, with no intention of harming us. You can see some videos here

The next day we had to choose between covering the National Seashore or going to Nantucket. But since Nantucket was more of a land-mark that you keep hearing about, we decided that our trip to Cape Cod wouldn't be complete without a visit to the Island. So off we went, on a cruise to the Nantucket Island. As you can see in the map, the place is at quite some distance from the Cape - around 2 hours by normal ship and 1 hour in a fast boat. Since time was a premium for us, we decided to take the fast boat. The Island's filled with rich ageing folks owning summer villas, zipping around in flashy convertibles.

Decided to make it a memorable experience, we rented bikes on the Island - a couple of normal single bikes and a few tandem bikes (twin-seaters). And we headed off to the West-most corner of the island - Siasconset Beach. But what we didn't realize at that moment was that the trip to S'conset Beach and back was around 14 miles. 14 miles doesn't sound like much but you realize it's magnitude when you cycle that long. And we were EXHAUSTED by the time we came back. I hardly remember much of the trip. We caught the last ship back to Hyannis harbor and made our way back home.

P.S. - I had bought a new hat just that weekend and as you'll see in the snaps, I had it on all the time. It's one helluva cool hat!
Among the places that I would like to cover in my next visit would be the beaches along the National Seashore, idllying on one of the canal cruises, maybe a sunset cruise and a trip down to Martha's Vineyard. Quite a lot actually to go back for...