Wood's Hole

Sunday the weather turned out to be beautiful so we called up Scott and set up last minute plans to meet and head down to the Cape for a hike. Scott wrote a great report of the hike on his blog.



We followed the bike path from Falmouth to Wood's Hole. The walk out was 3.3 miles through wetlands, along the beach and through the forest. In the wetland's part we saw some giant swans and some crazy berries that were pastel green, blue, and purple.



We ate lunch at the point where the river met the ocean. There were a bunch of fish at the mouth of the river trying to swim up it and some huge black birds sitting on a dock.



In the forest we saw some walls of an abandoned stone building and posed for some pictures.



Then the path led through the middle of a parking lot for the ferries to the islands. We followed the path into town and wandered around ending up at the Oceanographic Institute, which unfortunately was closed but we did get to see a harbor seal that the have in an outdoor pen. We walked along the docks and saw a seagull throw something up, it was very nature channel. We stopped in "Jimmy's" and got ice cream cones that we had to gulp down because they were melting so fast and dripping all over.




On the way back we stopped and walked in the water at the beach. At one point, back on the path I saw a snake and came close to jumping in front of a biker to get away from it. Scott was impressed by my snake-spotting skills.

I would totally recomend this hike, it was beautiful.