On Bradford’s Trail: Cape Cod

Outer dunes of Cape Cod

The Pilgrims hiked through landscape like this in their first explorations

Tradition has assigned this small spring as that from which the Pilgrims had their first drink of New England water

Woods of Cape Cod, a landscape that may have looked familiar to the Pilgrims

The likely spot of the Pilgrim’s First Encounter skirmish, near First Encounter Beach

Pleasant Bay

A kayak trip out to the site of the Sparrowhawk. Bradford took a trip across the same bay to visit the wreck

Joshua Horn

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