Shore of Provincetown, MA
UPDATE TIME!!!
First, let me apologize for taking SO long to post again.
Picking up where I left off, Sarah and Erin and I did end up going to dinner together at a restaurant called Landfall. It was overpriced (like everything else on the Cape) but we had a great time!
After dinner, we got dessert at Pie in the Sky, an awesome little bakery.....I'm surprised I survived eating this sucker:
I've been on the Shining Sea Bikeway a few times now, but I took my camera along with me the first time I rode the full 12 miles out and back for a total of 24 miles!
At the end of the bike path, there's a coffee shop called The Daily Brew that serves EPIC, delicious muffins. They were having a cool little community yard sale behind the business, so I did some fun people watching.
Back on the bike path, I stopped at this little overlook on a pond and took some time to call my parents (mum, dad, this is where I was during that phone convo at the cabin).
Much to my delight, there were several crabs hunting in the waters below, and I caught this little guy munching greedily on a minnow in the sunshine.
Part of the bike path stretches along the ocean- it's beautiful! The downside is that the wind blows against you on the way back to Woods Hole, so I had to stop a few times to rest. Oi vay.....
On the way back into town, I was held up by the tiny little drawbridge that lets boats in and out of Eel Pond. Despite the delay, it's a pretty cute event to behold:
Later that same day, the Grass Lab was playing the Neural Sciences and Behavior (NS&B) course in softball. There are about nine or ten Grass Fellows and over thirty NS&B students, so they asked Nick and Erin to join their team. I decided I would rather be Team Photographer instead of a player. :)
Here's Nick warming up!
Emma warming up as well! Good form, Kiwi!
For those of you who don't know, Emma is our collaborator from Willamette; she's the one who brought Sarah and Erin out to Woods Hole. Currently, they're working on newts, and I won't butcher their research by attempting to describe it. It's related, though, I promise.
Emma was pretty amazed that she caught the ball........LOLZ
Erin decided to get in the game as well!
Nick up to bat.........
He got into first, and then Jeremy came to bat.......
YEAH TRIPLE HOME RUN!
Erin up to bat.......
The commentary after the game was intense and enthralling.
OK, now fast forward to the events of last Tuesday!
Nick's girlfriend Christina came to visit before her trip back to Michigan! We wanted to do something fun as a group, so we decided to schlep up to Provincetown, which is on the very tip of the Cape, and go whale watching!
Here's the boat as they were loading us on.
We were all VERY excited to go whale watching! WOOT!
A view of Provincetown from the boat!
YAY! Everyone wants to see whales! Except maybe Nick! I don't think he appreciates having his picture taken.........
THAR SHE BLOWS!!!
Then this whale BREACHED (jumped)! Totally unexpected! It's a really costly activity, but researchers speculate that males use it as a courting display to show off their prowess. Ooooo!
The best fluke shot of the day!
Here we have what we think is a mom and her older calf!
A lovely group of cormorants as we returned to shore........
Headin' back.......
Erin and Sarah were quite pleased with the day!
Nick and Christina stopped for a photo-op........
Yay Provincetown! Home to whales, fisherman, and a significant portion of the Cape's LGBT community!
Dang, this post took forever. It'll teach me to post more frequently! Tomorrow is 4th of July, and I'll be taking a lot of pictures of the day's events. Expect a post shortly thereafter!
Thanks for reading! I miss seeing you all on a regular basis.......and when I come back in August I demand time with EVERYONE!
Lila
