The Ballew's Camping Fun: Cape Cod

For those of you who don't know, maybe I am the only one who didn't, Cape Cod is a county made up of a lot little towns, that are made up of villages.

This would have been a nice pictures if there weren't so many signs in front of it.

Hyannis

Our first stop was the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum. As usual up here, no pictures allowed inside. They have done a great job with this, it is filled with many pictures by the Kennedy's personal photographer.

"Walkway to the Sea", it is several blocks long winding it's way to the harbor.

The Art Shanties located on the walkway

We took a walk down to the Harbor

And a boat to tour the harbor - not a good picture of her

The only "free" beach here

The sailboats

The Kennedy Compound (as close as boat can get)

The Kennedy Memorial and the Korean Memorial

Hyannis Port Breakwater after Hurricane Bob put those holes init

The Mansions along the waterway

West Yarmouth

A visit to the Harley Dealer brought us here

Whydah Pirate Museum

After our shirt purchases (I even got two, no doing well on breaking the habit), we went to the

This museum details the pirate ship, the Whydah, that wrecked in 1717, when the ship met disaster in one of the worst storms to strike the eastern seaboard.. It went down with her treasure from fifty plundered ships. The wreck was discovered by Barry Clifford and his team is still diving and recovering at the site. The museum also is part of an on-going archaeological mission, where they are maintaining their 'finds" in saline water and slowly cleaning and restoring the artifacts. They claim to fame is it is the "world’s only" pirate treasure–together with personal remains as weapons, jewelry and clothing.

The museum is not really geared to children, but there were a ton of them there the day we were. An adult only day would have been great. Those little shrill voices are like fingernails on a chalkboard to my ears.

Big Bob hanging with a grown-up.