July 2002 trip to Woods Hole

Notes and comment on going to Woods Hole MA July 21-28 2002.

The house is at:

10 Agassiz Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
(508)548-1317

It sleeps approximately 10 people. Woods Hole is about 7 hours by car from Reading PA, or 2.5 hours from Providence RI, or 3.5 hours from Boston (counting traffic).

-- CharlesShapiro - 03 May 2002

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What to Do at Woods Hole

• Lie around on the deck.

• Go to Gansett Beach: cold water, stoney (bring water shoes).

• Take turns with household chores.

• Visit the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute museum: See movies, displays.

• Visit the Marine Biology Lab (MBL) aquarium: See harbor seals, aquatic petting zoo.

• Go pub-crawling in town; walk home afterward.

• Walk to town for ice cream after dinner.

• Take whale-watching cruise from Barnstable.

• Go on half- or full-day fishing trip; bring home dinner.

• Walk on golf course at night, unless the caddies catch you.

• Go snorkeling at Sippewissett at low tide (warm water).

• Send children to town for newspaper.

• Juggle with the Falmouth juggling club

• Take ferry to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

• See exhibits in basement of MBL

• Go on MBL science cruise with genuine biologist.

• Lie around on screened porch.

• Go to MBL beach (sandy but polluted) before someone catches you.

• Swim around the point from Gansett beach to MBL beach (better be in shape)

• Sneak down to country club beach in the rain.

• Walk, rollerblade, or bike to Falmouth and look at shops -- buy cool knives from hardware store

• Walk, run or drive to Nobska lighthouse and watch the sunrise or sunset over The Hole.

• Buy expensive chocolate at the Woods Hole drugstore

• Hang out with college or grad students in ``downtown'' Woods Hole.

• Lie around on beach.

• Go to the baseball field and juggle.

• Play board games inside when it rains.

• Make music, or reasonable facsimile thereof, on deck.

• Fish for cunner off docks in Woods Hole.

• Pick blackberries, rose hips or blueberries around the countryside.

• Go night-fishing off the jetty near Gansett beach.

• Climb Lion Rock near Gansett Beach.

• Picnic on Gansett Beach at sunset.

• Sail sunfish or other solo boats off Gansett Beach.

• Read literature from the ancestral Sturtevant family library.

• Buy cheap used books from the Woods Hole Library.

• Hunt for treasure on the beaches and in the schoolyards (bring your own metal detector).

• Look at sky through telescope (no streetlights).

• Barbecue stuff.

• Tour the Cape Cod Potato Chip factory (free samples).

• Tour the National Seashore at Provincetown (long day's drive).

• Buy live lobsters and have a lobster feast (Relatively cheap!).

• Eat the best fried clams on the East coast.

• Return all beverage containers for deposit.

woodshole_directions.txt (Directions to the woods hole house)