This is the Railroad Bridge over the Cape Cod Canal... and that's my magic bus! |
I couldn't get close to the end-plate so maybe you can't see, but the symbol is a three-tower castle! |
It was like a big erector set. |
Nice looking bridge, I thought. |
This gives you a sense of the width of the canal. |
The birds were doing a lot of this wing-waving, apparently enjoying the wind as much as I was. |
These guys were so still for so long that I just had to take a picture... |
...which seemd to cause the guy on the right to turn his head. |
This sailboat reminded me of the trip that I made with some MITRE friends, some 30 years ago. Maybe we even passed through the canal? |
This is the Bourne bridge. There's a large campground on my left and 6 or 8 groups of folks from there were sitting in lawn chairs and watching the canal. |
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Who can resist shooting from under a bridge? |
Not me, apparently! |
Sturdy legs. |
With serious warnings posted. |
An egret? Whatever it was... |
... it took to flight as I tried for a closer shot. It seemed much less accustomed to humans than the gulls and ducks. |
Only on the walk back did I realized that the bridge could lower. I asked a local who told me it would be an hour before the next occurrence, so I didn't wait, but I was tempted. It takes 2.5 minutes... seems fast for such a long drop. |
A typical canal house. |
I laughed out loud when I turned around and saw this image right out of a kids picture book. All that was missing was the sound of its horn. |
A fair was setting up near my parking space. I wanted to take lots of photos, but the security people wouldn't let me in... |