Coastguard Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore

A long drive to Cape Cod and the Cape Cod National Seashore to visit this iconic place. We’re glad we did despite the distance and despite the fog on the beaches when we arrived there.

We called in at the Salt Pond Visitors Centre on the Nauset Road. Interesting video narrating the words of Henry David Thoreau describing his impression of his many visits to the area in the 1850s. An excellent museum there too displaying information about the First Nation people as well as all the various sea related activities.

When we got down to the beach it was shrouded in thick fog, as you can see. Erie and ephemeral people came and went out of the mist with the pounding surf providing a solid background to the foggy beach.

We walked through the murk from Coastguard Beach to Nauset Light Beach mainly to view the Nauset Light (middle of the lights in extras) and the Three Sisters (two of are in the extra). All the lights hereabouts have had to be moved inland as the shore retreats.

We saw the hut which was the terminus of the first undersea cable across the Atlantic and were going on to see the towers at Marconi Beach where Marconi, in 1903 successfully transmitted a message across the Atlantic - but fog and time defeated us.