Nantucket

On the ferry, headed to Nantucket. 

Surprise hot cocoa!

Dev had seen a movie based in Nantucket and 

wanted to ride her bike like the main character and 

find some of the spots of interest.  

(From Dev's journal)

^{The whaling museum} 

^{Seeing the houses and the church steeple dotting along the Nantucket coast thrilled me as I had been waiting for over a year to experience the island of Nantucket.  The first stop we made was the Whaling Museum.}  

^{The Whaling Museum was created to honor and remember the old way to get oil, whaling!  The whalers would leave Nantucket with one large ship and three boats on the side of the ship needing to fill at least seventy-five barrels of oil and possibly be gone for three to four years.} 

^{The whaling process was very complicated as you can see, The big ship would sail slowly making a circle around the world until they got back to Nantucket and if they saw a whale along the way they would stop. First the whalers would climb into the small boats and lower the boats down into the water. After the boats were far enough away from the large ship, the Harpooner, the spearer of the whale, would do his job of spearing or hooking the  whale so it cannot escape. The whale not being dead yet, took the boat and its people on what the sailers liked to call the “Nantucket Joy Ride” where the whale would pull the small row boat away from the main ship for miles simply because the whale was speared and couldn’t get away. Then when the whale got tired the Harpooner and the Captain would switch places and the Captain would make the finale kill. Then after a long time they would finally reach the main boat and they would take the whale apart so they could boil the blubber down until they could put the freshly made oil into barrels and move on.} 

^{Whaling is a thing of the past and I must say I am glad we don’t have to kill whales for oil any more because if we did you would no longer see a whale tale come up out of the water and make a big splash.}

A good break for littles, we had the place to ourselves.

Second oldest lighthouse in America, 1746!

And then we hoped on bikes!

Oh these streets...

Then Deveraux asked if we could bike to Siasconset,

an 18 mile bike trip round trip.  And so we did it!

Clamshell lined streets.

She LOVED the bike!

The town was a bit deserted.  It was an interesting quaint 

little town.

There were many small doorways.

Pizza and ice cream were in order after our

long bike ride!

And then we parked to check out the sunset

on the beach. 

We were blessed with such a treat! 

Ice cream,

A bike ride challenge,

lovely scenes, 

and a beautiful sunset 

All made for a lovely Nantucket day!