Slow Life Chronicles

I must admit that it took me many, many years to discover the town of Falmouth, its village of Woods Hole, and the Shining Sea Bikeway, the glorious bike path that goes for 10 miles and terminates in Woods Hole right at the ferry terminal.

As we were approaching Edgartown Harbor and sailed past Cape Poge Light, another lighthouse kept getting more and more prominent — Edgartown Harbor Light, right at the entrance to Engartown Inner Harbor.

As we were entering the channel towards Edgartown Harbor, to my surprise I saw a nice white lighthouse at some distance to our port.

These “cruising grounds” were supposed to be one of the best on the US East Coast, if not in the entire country.

That day we were not supposed to be visiting Peddocks Island at all. Ben, Lena and I had a boat for two days of the July 4th weekend, and were planning an overnight cruise. The forecast for Friday was for north-east wind 10–15 knots, building up to 20 in the afternoon, with gusts up to 25 knots and 3–5 foot waves.