Category: provincetown

that’s me (suprise) above, in April of 2011, goofing around with the BF in the dunes near Race Point. The same trip where I first saw Right Whales. For some reason the other day, I was poking around the archives here, and saw my first post after my very first trip to Provincetown, back in the fall of 2004. Yup, I guess I was right back then – I was just getting started!

I found the long line for the “chinatown bus” and got in it. Distracted by my thoughts, but able to keep pace with the slow-moving line that promised me onto a totally packed bus, I tried to keep my sighing to myself. Nearing the front, where a small asian woman was taking e-tickets, I looked to my left and saw another bus company’s much shorter line. Boston – Hyannis – Provincetown. I sighed, then the six people in that line turned towards me, and all started laughing. HAHAHA ha! You have to go back to New York, and we’re all going to P-Town. HAHAHAHAHA! ha!

sigh.

Only a couple hours earlier, watching all the leathermen get off the fastferry as I waited to get on, an ambulance pulled up to the boat. Apparently someone got sick/passed out, and there would be a delay; is this a sign I should stay? I didn’t necessarily want to be part of leathermates weekend, but as these hairy smiling faces passed me going into town, I sighed. Why must I leave so soon? I biked, I beach-frolicked, bird-watched, picture-snapped, dunes-brunched, sunset-watched, chowder-slurped; in a hottub, on a bed, under a boatslip, and in the dunes there were other kinds of slurping. Head sunburned, feet blistered, crotch grabbed, butt – well, they tried, anyway. I laughed my ass off as a pair of seals appeared, swimming along the shore in the same direction as my barefoot hike, trying to snap pictures, having no problem keeping up with them until I exhausted myself and found a solitary spot up against the sand and ate the poorly planned meal i had in my backpack. And they appeared again, turning and diving, poking their faces out in my direction, and swimming off again, giving me another fit of laughter.

But

I was just getting started.

sigh.

Cool! Flyer’s Boat Rentals in Provincetown has a webcam, looking out on Provincetown Harbor

the BF now has a little joke on me, when we see sealife in the ocean, he jokes that it’s a log, because some weeks ago, staring in disbelief as we pulled into the parking lot at Herring Cove, seeing right whales surfacing – I was like – “oh, that’s just a log!” Watching the sunset over supermoon weekend a few weeks back, a harbor seal poke his face out of the water to say hello, and of course, I had to hear myself getting made fun of as the BF said: “oh, that’s just a log!” as I attempted to take a picture before he disappeared back into the ocean.

My favorite form of public transportation, I was at the Boston bus terminal last week and at 5:15 the Fung Wah bus must’ve had 60+ people in line for their 5:30 bus, and I was at the end of the line for Lucky Star, with only 2 people ahead of me! But, by the time we left at 5:35, 40 people! And still, I managed to hog two seats and soak up 4-1/2 hours of free WiFi for my 15 bucks. yeah! (more exclamation marks!)

or as the teen girl near us exclaimed: this TOTALLY makes up for my crummy birthday!

A nice walk from Province Lands Road through the dunes on the Fire Road, just past Hatches Harbor brought us close to, but not at, Race Point. It was a spur of the moment thing, so without enough fresh water (and snacks) we did a 30 minute in, 30 minute out walk without (this time) getting to the ocean. Beautiful afternoon with my sweetie! I didn’t even notice the guys working on the lighthouse until we got back home and looked over the photos. And the wind turbines in the background – Plymouth?

i like this clip because you can get a quick glimpse (audio) of exasperated me, of a gaggle of girls getting in my way (audio), their cooing in my ear ( ooooh, dolphins! DOLPHINS!), and yet, despite the sounds and shaky camera work, it’s just a lovely few seconds of some animals off of Race Point, on another wonderful whale watch.