ColonizationOn Bradford’s Trail: Cape Cod Joshua Horn December 4, 2025 share 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