June Scenes from Cape Cod

Scenes from several short walks while on a family visit to Outer Cape Cod.

Viewing platform at Marconi Wireless Station Site, South Wellfleet, Cape Cod National Seashore.

 

The Atlantic was a deep blue on this fine sunny day.

This plaque explains the significance of the Marconi Wireless Station Site.

The beach rose is beautiful and widespread on the Cape, but is not native to the area. It was thought to have arrived aboard a ship that was wrecked on Nauset Beach in 1849.

From the Marconi site we took a loop walk on the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail, which mostly winds through picturesque pitch pine forest on a smooth sandy footway, light years removed from the rocky trails of the White Mountains.

Gnarled by the seaside winds.

The mosquitoes were reportedly terrible on the short boardwalk section through the cedar swamp, so we skipped that and looped back on a section called the Old Wireless Road.

Carol fended off the skeeters with her stylish bug suit.

We also took a freshwater kettle pond walk at Eastham's Wiley Park.

 

A view of Bridge Pond, with no houses along its shore.

Leaflets Three, Let It be! Poison ivy and deer ticks are hazards of Cape Cod hiking.

Lovely paths meander through the woods around the ponds.

A vista across Great Pond, where I learned to swim on summer vacation many years ago.

Inviting.

Informative panel.

Eastham's Fort Hill, in the Cape Cod National Seashore, is one of our longtime favorites for a short, scenic walk.

Multiflora rose lines the path as it runs along the edge of Nauset Marsh.

Another invasive from the Far East, but admittedly beautiful.

Along this trail I always scramble up this glacial erratic.

Good view up here over Nauset Marsh.

Lupines in bloom up on Fort Hill (45 ft.).

Nauset Marsh view from Fort Hill.

 Post-sunset over Cape Cod Bay, First Encounter Beach, Eastham.