Today was a beach day. This is what the girls wanted to do for vacation, beaches, didn’t matter where, just beaches. We headed to Marconi Beach which is part of the Cape Cod National Seashore.

As you can see it was a little windy. A neighbour’s umbrella getting away.

Marconi Beach is on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Cape.

The water was cold, as you can tell by the surfer’s wetsuit. Of course Claudia was right in there.

The girls sand creation.

Despite the cold water there were lots of people in the water.

Including a couple of Gray Seals swimming about.

The beach has huge sand cliffs on the one side.

There is a protected beach area, i.e. lifeguards, and on either side is where the surfers and those with dogs hang out.

Claudia in the middle of her sand castle.

This was the view for most of the day.

Claudia relaxing as the tide was coming in. That is a person on a surfboard out there, not a shark.

Another Gray Seal in the water. There are signs before heading to the beach that tell you not to swim in the water near seals. Where there are seals, there may be seal predators, i.e. sharks!

As you can see Claudia is having a great time.

Not sure why Angela has the pout going on, but it may have been the tide coming in and wrecking her sand.

Another shot of the Gray Seal.

The beach was pretty busy, they charge you $15/vehicle to use the beach. This was looking north.

This was looking south.

After the beach we went to the Marconi Tower site. It no longer stands, as most of the remnants have been removed due to parts falling down to the ocean due to the erosion. Marconi was planning to do his first trans-atlantic transmission test from this site, but due to a storm knocking down some of the towers he ended up in St John’s, NL and received the first trans-atlantic test signal.

Some of the closed off areas due to erosion.

We had dinner at PJ’s on Route 6, I had fried clams, Angela had fried shrimp, Susan had the bbq ribs and Claudia had caesar salad. Afterwards we went into Wellfleet to the Mayo Beach. This would be our destination for tomorrow. This beach had some tide pools.

A hermit crab photo for Gillian.

A random crab claw.

We made one final stop back at Marconi Beach.

The tide was going out.

The end to another great day on Cape Cod.