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engineering, the Cape Cod Canal, 100 years old in 2014. Here’s where history really speaks to the cruiser. Pass under the three ancient but sturdy bridges, find the old Coast Guard station, pass by John Galluzzo the herring run, and think back to that day in 1914 when the steamer Rose Standish o, you tie up at Kingman Yacht Center in beautiful broke the ribbon signifying the meeting Cataumet after a superb day of cruising. Wanting to of the waters from Cape Cod Bay and Buzzards Bay. New Bedford, on the other hand, is stretch your legs before dinner, you take to the 40 big, bold and diverse. The people of many acres of Cape Cod woods within walking distance nations have settled here through time, of the center, taking in the singing towhees and mostly influenced by the presence of sparrows, and the serene views of the famous cranberry bogs of work in the whaling industry, now long defunct. The legacy remains, though, in the southeastern Massachusetts. whaling museum, the historic seaport and national park, and in the foods of those many nations, served at the varying ethnic You retreat to the obvious dinner spot, the Chart Room, which weekend festivals. New Bedford is art galleries, a renowned zoo, leaves you just steps from your boat at the end of the night. As the lighthouses, World War I-era forts, and more. sun sets over Red Brook Harbor and Bassett Island, you feel satiated South of New Bedford, little Cuttyhunk Island stands as the and calm. And you feel like you want to know more about this outpost of the Elizabeths, a chain running off Falmouth and wonderful place called Buzzards Bay. Woods Hole “discovered” by Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 (the The buzzards, it turns out, are what modern folks call ospreys, natives already knew it was there, of course). It’s enough to make the fish hawks that soar 60 feet above the water and plunge, talonsone’s head spin. down, when they spy a meal. They once thickly populated the place, At the end of the night, you turn in and consider the morning. and now do so again, after a near extirpation in the middle of the Portuguese food in New Bedford, or pizza in Onset? A walk up 20th century. Their history is just the beginning of the story of Broadway on Cuttyhunk, or a wade ashore at Black Beach? Check Buzzards Bay. out the regatta off Mattapoisett, or cruise the canal, just to say Kingman Yacht Center sits almost at the extreme eastern end of you’ve done it? The Kingman Yacht Center will be there on your the bay. To the north is quaint little Onset, caught ??????Y???????????????????????????????e??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????? ?????????????????????=?????????????????????????????()???????????????????????()
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