I’m on Cape Cod again (hurray!) and in just two days this week I’ve visited another lighthouse and another and another one! On one day, we were headed for the Nauset light, which is on the ocean side of north Eastham, you’ll see it in a minute from every possible angle. But first we discovered the Three Sisters, inland a third of a mile from her, all three plunked down in a clearing surrounded by trees, where they certainly can’t light the way as they used to long ago, but preserved for people to be charmed by. Here is the first sister, the others are hiding behind her, especially number three, who is in the second picture far behind number two:
And then we went down a path through the trees towards the beach, till we got to the Nauset light. What a lovely light! Suddenly there she was through the trees!
This lighthouse had to be moved because the coast where it stood was crumbling. And the lightkeeper’s house, over 100 years old, was moved with it and sits right next door. There’s no longer a lightkeeper but there is a voluntary group who stopped the lighthouse being demolished and now they keep it tidy, show people round, and keep it well painted and looking very dressed up. So here she is, from all angles!
I warned you it would be from all angles! Isn’t she sweet? And here she is with the lighthouse keeper’s cottage:
We were even able to climb up inside and see the top where the light was going round and round. Here are two shots of the top of the light, from inside, where the two lights are going round:
OK, time to leave and let the kids in who are waiting outside to climb up. Wave bye-bye!
