Saltspray roses beside the boardwalk, Sandwich

We finally reached Cape Cod about 4pm yesterday afternoon, in steady rain. We got the camper set up and unpacked the car, then went out for a great seafood meal by the water. This morning was a grey foggy start, so we decided to visit the Sandwich Glass museum, which tells the story of the 19th century Boston and Sandwich Glass Company and its founder, Deming Jarves, and has a wonderful display of all sorts of glass. By the time we left the museum, around noon, the fog had burned off and it was a beautiful day. While searching for a place for lunch, we came across the Boardwalk, which crosses the dunes to the beach. Here, as you can see in the background of my blip, and especially out at sea, the fog was still in place. We had lunch at a place next to the Cape Cod canal, and afterwards, went for a short walk along the canal. The fog here was drifting - you would look along the canal one minute and see the road bridge, then ten minutes later it would have disappeared again. Then we went back into the center of the village (and back into the sunshine!) and walked around, seeing the main sites, including the Hoxie House, which is the oldest house on Cape Cod (ca. 1637) and one of the oldest surviving houses in Massachusetts. This saltbox house was built in the mid-seventeenth century and occupied around 1675 by Rev. John Smith and his family. In the mid-nineteenth century, Abraham Hoxie, a whaling captain, purchased the property.