August 4th

We walk to the glassware museum this morning and could have stayed longer than one hour and an half. The 19th glass factory was major and all the samples we saw were well explained and beautiful. We also viewed a demonstration.

We had to leave the marina by noon and slack on the canal was around that time too, so we walked back to the boat and moved quickly to leave the marina. We had an easy ride up to Barnstable even with a large boat stuck in the middle of the channel, probably got stuck at low tide. Even at high tide the boat wasn't able to leave the harbor entrance, we figure that other problems were affecting it. We couldn't secure a mooring given the size of our boat, but we were told to anchor near the mooring field. There are hardly anyone here and if we had grabbed a mooring ball, it wouldn't have made much of a notice. Anyway we are honest and anchored with the very high tide in mind. On this side of the Cape Cod Bay, the tides are over 10ft, which means 3 meters or so. When anchored you have to take this into consideration especially when the harbor water level, at mid low level, can drop to 2 ft. Don't want to be sanded in, done that no good. The wind was pretty strong all afternoon, so we stayed on the boat doing some fixing and completing the drying of the laundry:)

Hoping to explore a bit tomorrow after a change of wind strength and direction. Our next stop is Wellfleet where we have a mooring ball, yeah.

August 5th,

Given the low tide, we are staying at anchor for a few hours before leaving for Wellfleet. A nice kayak ride, we were amazed at the shallowness into the harbor entrance, and even more when returning to our boat to realize that only a few feet back and our props would have been on the sand barre as well. People were collecting shellfish on the exposed land, otherwise this place is very quiet. One would not think this is August.