Categories: Colonization

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
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