Nantucket

We arrived in Nantucket on Wednesday, June 8 and anchored in the harbor. We have been visited with all kinds of weather while here. We have had both warm days and cool days (for us southerners anyway!) We've experienced strong winds with whitecaps in the harbor making for a very wet ride in with four piled into our little dinghy! Some days we elected to stay aboard and dry, reading ad playing games.
Friday, June 10 we visited the newly opened Whaling Museum. We found it informative and interesting with many exhibits including a fantastic scrimshaw exhibit, a movie on the spermwhale that wased ashore in '97 and the futile attempts to rescue it, but which ultimately resulted in a learning experience as they retrieved the oil from the headcse. The bones are now in the Whaling Museum. We stayed for the museums musical program which included recitations of abridged readings of Melille's "Moby Dick" (We actually braved the dinghy ride to come in that day and all got a little wet. Tracy encouraged the trip for that day so that we could attend the performance. We had an enjoyable time despite the drenching.)
After spending the following two days aboard waiting for the winds to die down, we were quite ready to go ashore on Monday. We visited several historic sites. One of the sites was an Old Mill that does actually operate and grind corn during the season. Unfortunately the mill will not be up and running until next week. We enjoyed the tour anyway.
Fortune smiled on us Tuesday and we visited the Maria Mitchell Museums and Aquarium on their opening day for the season at no cost. We finished off the day with a slide show on a trip to the Galapogas Islands.
Tomorrow we plan to depart for Falmouth and then work our way over to Buzzards Bay and then up through the canal, perhaps arriving in Sandwich early next week.
In the meantime, one of the best things about cruising life is sitting near the shore with the gentle beeze blowing in your hair, listening to the soft flapping of a flag and the playful splash of a duck nearby knowing you can just sit there in the heat of the sunshine with no particular place to go and nothing that needs doing asap., just enjoying God's world.