Woods Hole and Falmouth

I've got to start my new New England blog in Woods Hole where it all started for me and my wife back in the fall of 1998.  We first ventured onto Cape Cod on a late September afternoon and since the only thing we had really heard of in the area was Martha's Vineyard, that's where we asked the guy at the just off Cape Visitor Center how to get to.  We ended up taking a ferry over to the island from Woods Hole and found ourselves disoriented on an island that was a lot bigger than we thought.  We ended up looking around Vineyard Haven for awhile before going back to Woods Hole where our real Cape love affair began.

We had some seafood at the Captain Kidd while we tried to figure out where we were going to stay.  I shudder as I write this but, we went on a week long trip from Kentucky to first Washington D.C. then Cape Cod in a small rented Ford Contour, a single cell phone the size of a refrigerator and not a single hotel reservation.  These days, we start looking on Priceline at least a week before we spend the night 30 miles from our house.

After we ate, we wound up in what felt like the attic of a place called Shoreway Acres in Falmouth Village just a few miles up Woods Hole Road.  We didn't realize it at the time but, the four miles of Woods Hole Road between Falmouth and Woods Hole, would become one of our all time favorite drives as that particular part of the Upper Cape became one of our all time favorite spots.

After our night in the attic, we ventured back to Woods Hole to a tiny little spot called Pie in the Sky.  This was another of the few things we knew about the Cape, some friends of ours had breakfast there the year before and told us to check it out.  Over our many visits, over the years, we've come to realize that Pie in the Sky is a focal point of the tiny village that's full of scientists and artists.  Time after time we've seen locals addressed by name by the staff as well as a lot of socializing among the local clientele in the midst of visitors from just about everywhere.

As I eluded to, Woods Hole is home to a lot of scientists in the fields of marine and environmental research.  The village is home to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutuon, the Woods Hole Research Center, and the Marine Biology Labratory.  There's also a neat little research aquarium on one end of the village that's free and open to the public and a big hit with kids. It makes for a very unique and interesting village.

Woods Hole is also packed with great restaurants too.  We always try to make it around to The Captain Kidd, The Landfall and The Fishmonger when we're on the Cape for some memorable seafood meals and clam chowder comparisons.



If you make it to Cape Cod be sure and carve out some time for a visit to Woods Hole and see what you think about it.