Day Two Of Our Tour

Sept. 16: This is our second day and we traveled by bus to Plymouth to tour a museum, the Plymouth rock, Mayflower II, and Whale watching cruise accross cape code. We left the RV park at 7:30 and got back about 5:30 so it was a very long day. The weather was not as good as we would have liked it to be it was over cast and only about 70 degrees.




This picture is of our tour bus it is a Prevost a very nice bus. Barb tried to get a picture with it parked by some trees that are turning colors. Massachutes is one big forest of trees that is why they have the most colorful fall colors. They have so many kind of trees probably every kind of tree there is so that is why they have such pretty colors. The changing of the trees is late this year it is just starting. What we understand is it is because it has been so wet the past month.


Our first stop was at this Pilgrim Hall Museum. It was a tour of the history of the way of life and original furniture and paintings that come over on the Mayflower. We could not take pictures so we they gave us a web site we can go to do a down load .


This is a picture of the building of the museum. There was a 103 people who come over and after they got here only 51 survived. They showed a chart of the names of people and Barb actually found her ancesters name on the chart and there was 4 of the Bullingtons and all 4 survived. The ones who didn't survive died of small pox. A Large Wampanoag indian trib had been wiped out by small pox as well.

Then we toured the Mayflower boat with actual characters acting the part of life on the boat. This boat is a replica of the MayFlower boat that come over in 1957.

This is the big boat that we went out whale watching on.

Here is a hump back whale and her calf which was nursing so they come out of the water at the same time.

This is just a picture of their tail after they jumped out of the water. It was very hard to get pictures. Jerry took about 25 pictures but only 7 was good ones.

The real plymouth was under construction so there was all kinds of scaffling around it. Jerry got a picture but you could not even hardly see there was a rock inside all the construction. In the RV park we all have very large rocks on our lots. So when we got back for our social hour Jerry put ARK and SAW on the big rock next to our lot hopefully you can see them back by the Jeep.