Provincetown – In and About Town

Last post in the series. Several more random pictures taken.

Rich guy on a convertible. Think it’s an Audi A5, registered in New York from the car plate registration:

Golden Retrievers are popular about this part. Saw many of them.:)

A shop along Commercial Street selling antiques for your home. Too rich for me though.:(

Loved the poster on the left! This was near the entrance to Whaler’s Wharf, a small partially covered street with colorful shops:

Including a shop with an Asian artist assisted with his wife who was drawing 10 minute caricature portraits for visitors. He was a delightful chap; didn’t speak much English, and I don’t think he was Chinese either. My best guess is that he’s Japanese. Single person caricatures were going for USD9, and two-person USD15. Colored ones were going for a little higher – but those were very good prices for the quality of his work. Frames cost a further USD15.

And yes, I had my caricature done by him too. Will post it up sometime.:)

Wood End Lighthouse in the far, far distance, and the western end of the town. From the map we got at the tourist information center, we thought the lighthouse from the end of Commercial Street would still be within walking distance (we’d been walking for more about an hour at this point to get there).

We were so wrong.

This was at maximum zoom, 250mm X 1.5 crop factor. And this is as close as we got to the Wood End lighthouse. It was VERY far. The damn map was deceiving and not drawn to scale – gah.

A little depressing. We shuttle-bused ourselves up a little more north to Pering Cove Beach hoping to the Race Point lighthouse (Matt was determined to visit one lighthouse at least). No such luck: it was even further from where we were to it. Below’s a panoramic shot of Pering Cove Beach:

A beach of nothingness yeah. We backtracked to waiting for the shuttle bus to bring us back from what was the beach back to the town center. Below was my point of view for about an hour: starring at tall grass blowing in the wind:

His face says it all: our moods:

Back at the town center, we still had about 3 hours to kill before our fast ferry arrived at 7:30 PM to bring us back. It was getting real windy. We toyed with the idea of hiring a boat to bring us to a third lighthouse – Long Point – but one look at the choppy waters, and that we would be going in what looked like a small dinghy, we gave up the idea.

So we occupied ourselves people-watching, like this local cop stalking for a hot dog at The Red Shack (I had a hotdog here too).

Lounging around at the town center:

By 6:30 PM, a layer of fog was settling in on top of the strong winds. This was what it looked like. You probably can’t see from the picture too: but our ride – the Provincetown III – was returning and is in the picture.

I stuck myself at the front of the ferry and did the whole “I’m the King of the World!!!” thing sans Kate Winslet, enjoying the full blast of a cold evening wind on a fast ferry. When I returned, Matt observed that my face showed evidence of the wind blast.

Took a shot of the setting sun too at 8:10 PM:

We got back to Boston at about 9:15 PM. All dark: and it was a real feat getting shots like the below. On the slow Sigma 18-250mm lens. I’m getting real good at handheld long exposures, thanks to this trip.

So, the Provincetown trip was a mixed bag, considering the costs of getting there and returning. Crummy weather, and distances that looked a lot further than on the map. Still, the climb up the Pilgrim Monument, the very colorful residences, shops and restaurants – and of course, that we were approached by men in drag – made up for it.:)