For an adventure during the recent vacation at Cape Cod, I looked into taking a short aerial tour. We booked an hour long trip out of the Chatham general aviation airport - here are some of the highlights of what we saw.
The first and second images are on the bay side of the cape. There is a series of sand bars in the first, and the little black dots are an oyster farm. The second is a salt marsh - we visited another of these in the National Seashore area later in the week.
Third: a picture of Mary and me in front of the little plane before takeoff. Our flight was level at an altitude of 1,250 feet or so, and we flew at 110 mph. If you think of the outer cape as being in the shape of Rosie the Riveters bare arm, we flew from the elbow (Chatham) to the fist (Provencetown). Then we added a little tour over Monomoy island, with a seal colony numbering in the thousands. And somewhere on the horizon there, in the fourth picture, would be Nantucket Island in Connecticut.
For the fifth photo, here is the inlet at Wellfleet and the harbor. Then a shot of the Chatham Bars area, with the wonderfull green water.
The final picture, appropriately, is a shot of our approach on final. In some of the pictures, you can see the fixed landing gear of the little plane, but in this one, you can see the prop blade as the camera lens appeared to slow it down. I think you will see the blade in some of the other photos as well.
We took the Captain Douglas special - be sure to check for current pricing before you book!
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