Leaving Hyannis continued to reveal lovely images as we pulled away from shore. I do love the new camera with the terrific zoom capability, but it’s the fact that you can get clear shots without the tripod that puts it over the top. A tripod on that rolling deck wouldn’t have been fun to try to use. And the zoom let me see a woman using some sort of mystery device, at least from my point of view. I saw it as a black frame with two pieces of glass and couldn’t imagine what it was. I put the picture on my Cape Cod group and they thought it was just an iPad! She was taking pictures, LOL.
There was nothing to see but water and sky after a while, but then I noticed a shape breaking the horizon line. I wondered if it was a lighthouse, but through the camera’s zoom I could see the triangular shape of sails. The boat was the ‘fast ferry’, and it was really moving, and of course there was some rock, so trying to get a picture seemed futile but that didn’t stop me. I probably took more shots of that than I did of anything else that day. Especially because of the blinking light. It was performing exactly as the lighthouse lights do, steadily on and off. I asked about that on the Cape Cod group also, but no one seemed to have an answer. It did not seem to be moving, it seemed to be stationary. It is still a mystery.
And then Nantucket came into view. Even the harbor seemed quaint to me as we approached. I forgot to look for the Brant Point lighthouse until we were right on top of it. I believe I heard that it’s the second oldest and and also the smallest lighthouse. But I heard so many facts about the history of Nantucket that day that I was boggled so I will have to try to do some research before I try to repeat them. I had arrived…
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