July 2020 – Page 4 – WANDERLUST FAMILY ADVENTURE

Cape Cod National Seashore – Massachusetts

July 29, 2020 Joseph Candora Architecture, Beaches, Camping, Canoeing, Hiking, Historic Sites, Lake/Pond, Lighthouses, Massachusetts, National Parks Service, New England, North America, United States

The Cape Cod National Seashore is one of the highlights of any trip to Massachusetts. Long a summer retreat for the wealthy and poor alike there are accommodations for all price ranges on the cape. The National Seashore was created on August 7, 1961 by President John F. Kennedy and encompasses 43,607 acres on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. It includes ponds, woods and beachfront of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion. The CCNS includes nearly 40 miles of seashore along the Atlantic-facing eastern shore of Cape Cod, in the towns of Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans and Chatham. The cold water Atlantic beaches are an ideal summer getaway but the windswept shoreline offers things to do and see all seasons.

New photo by Wanderlust Family Adventure / Google Photos

The Old Harbor Life Saving Station is preserved within the park.

Highland Light can also be seen in the park.

To see another lighthouse you can walk along the beach to the Race Point Lighthouse. Be prepared the walk is along beach sand.

The interlacing bicycle routes are a wonderful way to take in the scenery.

Taste Test -Barùkas nuts

July 28, 2020 Joseph Candora Brazil, South America, Taste Test

Barùkas nuts (occasionally referred to as baru nuts in Brazil) grow in the savanna ecoregion of Brazil known as the “Cerrado”. Baru nuts are very high in protein with 24% of their weight being highly digestible protein, and they contain essential fatty-acids and antioxidants. They have fewer calories and fat than other traditional nuts and are also very rich in fiber, vitamin E, magnesium, potassium and zinc. We decided to try some of these even though Rita who is from Brazil had never heard of them. The nuts are similar in shape to a pine nut but are larger and with a brown papery skin.

The nuts are very crunchy and not at all mealy like a Brazil nut. The flavor is reminiscent of peanuts and cashews and I thought they had a slight coffee or mocha flavor as well. Rita and Alex did not like them saying that they were not terrible but not something they would go back to either.

Not my favorite nut either but not bad for a change of pace.

François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly Memorial Plaque – Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, Virginia

July 28, 2020 Joseph Candora Bridges, Historic Markers, Memorials, North America, United States, Virginia

François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly is my five times great grandfather on my mother’s side. This memorial plaque half way along the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel commemorates his victory in the Battle of Chesapeake Bay which was instrumental in the victory of Washington in the Yorktown Campaign of the American War of Independence.

Cape Anguille Lighthouse – Newfoundland, Canada

July 28, 2020 Joseph Candora Architecture, Beaches, Canada, Historic Sites, Lighthouses, Newfoundland, North America

Cape Anguille, the most westerly point in Newfoundland, forms the southwest point of St. George’s Bay and is situated eighteen miles northeast of Cape Ray. Cape Anguille was determined to be a possible location for a lighthouse in 1860 but one was not built there until 1908. A duplex dwelling wad also built to house the families of the keeper and the engineer for the fog alarm. Cape Anguille Lighthouse Inn now operates on the property.

Cape Cod Light (aka Highland Light) – Cape Cod National Seashore (North Truro, Massachusetts)

July 28, 2020 Joseph Candora Architecture, Beaches, Historic Sites, Lighthouses, Massachusetts, National Parks Service, New England, North America, United States

The Highland Light (previously known as Cape Cod Light) is an active lighthouse on the Cape Cod National Seashore in North Truro, Massachusetts. The current tower was erected in 1857, replacing two earlier towers that had been built in 1797 and 1831. It is the oldest and tallest lighthouse on Cape Cod. The 1797 lighthouse was a wooden structure authorized by George Washington. In 1996 the lighthouse was moved 450 feet inland due to beach erosion onto the property of the National Seashore.

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