Nantucket Flying

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7AM at Griffin Aviator, Hyannis


Ready for Fun



Checking the plane



Anticipation


Early morning light of a very sunny saturday



Here we go!


Flying south





Cotuit Bay


Popponesset Bay



Buoy in da Bleu




Nantucket East of Us


Tuckernut and Muskeget Islands



Smith's Point


Eel Point, Madaket, and Smith's Point


SE tip of Tuckernuck


Madaket Beach


Cisco Beach


Before landing


Nobadeer Beach next to the airport


Private jets, that's the life!


I want one of these, it will take me anywhere.


First stop after landing, in Nantucket Town, breakfast at the Fog Island Cafe!



Farmers Market in Nantucket Town


Bartlett Farm, beautiful people







Fresh Coffeee


Cobblestone street in Nantucket Town, then off to rent bikes ...


Headed East on the Polpis Path all the way to Pocomo, then unpaved road onto this paradise.




Sand bars!




Weeeeeeeeee....


Headed NE to Wauwinet, then very sandy unpaved road through Squam, then ended at ...


... Quidnet.



Pond at Quidnet


Snack



Walk to paradise


Quidnet beach. Paradise found!




Paulina in true happyness.

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From Quidnet, continued SE passing by the lighthouse at Sankaty Head and all the way to Siasconset, a very cute little town





Going West on the Milestone Path




Back into Nantucket Town then headed West through the Madaket Path, and returned through the Cliff Path


Cliff Beach, where the Boston Orchestra was playing at the beach with sunset, a gallery had an event, and catered dinner was being served afterwards. A good life, life as usual in Nantucket.








South Wharf




Back in the plane, before the long flight



Nantucket Harbor West of Us


Polpis Harbor



Coatue


Great Point Beach


Nantucket Town Harbor


Martha's Vineyard in the distance


Cape Cod up ahead


Waquoit Bay




Washburn Island, next destination



land use in Waquoit Bay



Martha's Vineyard


Buzzards bay


Bournes Pond, Green Pond, Great Pond, Woods Hole, Elizabeth Islands


Woods Hole and Elizabeth Islands


Oyster Pond (one of my study sites) and the Knob on the other side


Nonamesset and Uncatena Islands and Woods Hole


Nobska Lighthouse


Great Harbor in Woods Hole


Woods Hole Little Harbor and Eel Pond


Black Beach and WoodNeck Beach


Toby's Island and Pocassett


Scraggy Neck


Cape Cod Canal and Mashnee Island


Bourne Bridge


Provincetown


P-Town and Herring Cove


Race Point perfeito!




I love those dunes, amazing bike trails.


Acrobacies in the air ... dunes down there!


Sunset and P-Town


Herring River watershed in Wellfleet (another study site, alewives spawn in those ponds)


Aquaculture in Wellfleet


Wellfleet Harbor and Mayo Beach


Loagy Bay in Wellfleet


Herring River, where the alewives enter the watershed!


Ecstasy ...


Rita will have the controls now! Yupeeee



Happyness


Pure Happyness


Parking the plane in the Hangar. Perfect day.