When Jim and I had stopped in the Salt Pond Visitor Center for information about the hiking trails located a the seashore, a friendly park ranger had suggested both the Nauset Marsh and the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trails as two short, easy-to-moderate walking trails. So after quickly covering the Nauset Marsh Trail, we drove to the trailhead of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail, which is located on the former site of a U.S. Army base. The Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail was a mostly shaded trail that took us through one of the Cape's few remaining stands of Atlantic white cedar trees. Across the parking lot from the trailhead was the Marconi Station Site, which was the first U.S. transatlantic wireless telegraph station. The view from the station site was simply breathtaking.
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| Most of the trail followed raised wooden boardwalks over the swamp. |
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| Jim tried to push me into the swamp a few times, but he never succeeded. |
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| At this point, I was begging to walk through the swamp once again. Walking on sand is REALLY hard! |
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| View from the Marconi Station Site |
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| Pretty :) |
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| As the daredevil adventurers that we are, we followed this walking path in spite of the "closed" sign at the top. |
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| And here's why it was closed - The sand cliff was receding. It would have been quite a drop to the beach below (See the teeny tiny people down there?). |
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| Marker commemorating the site of the first transatlantic wireless telegraph between President Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VII. Ironically, we had no cell service at this point. |
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