Rockport, Massachusetts

It was spitting snow when we woke up!!  The view from the Airbnb as I had my coffee.  

Radar image.  No accumulation though. 

We made plans to meet Richard and Casey in Gloucester for some rainy day activities.  Windmills in the fog near town. 

First stop was the Cape Ann Museum. I’d read about it briefly, looked like a normal local art museum. But their main campus was closed for renovations. We went to the satellite location where the website said the art had been moved. Come to find out their satellite. Location is a tiny place and all it had was an exhibit for locally made pipe organs. We all found it hilarious for some reason that we had gone to the trouble to view one room with models of pipe organs. I didn’t even take a photo….

So we got in our vehicles and went to the next place, which was the Maritime Museum. It was much more interesting.

They had a neat hands-on aquarium area for the school kids. We enjoyed it as well. They had this cool blue lobster in a tank. The employees in the room told us that they catch all of the items locally and keep them in the aquariums for a month or so before releasing them back into the wild, rotating the stock. (This lobster was in a tank with other animals, so had to have bands on to keep it from devouring them!)

Outside on the wharf, windy, and cold!

Me being silly inside a huge mock up of a lobster trap. 

Next rainy day activity, visit the Hammond Castle. It was built by a wealthy man who had hundreds of patterns, things like very early remote control. It was built as a museum, not really as a home in the early 1900s.

It was actually pretty bizarre. Kind of a hodgepodge of all weird artifacts.  A pipe organ….must be a local thing…

Complicated architecture. 

Interesting mildly, but I don’t think really worth the entry price!

But it was a pretty backdrop for a couple of photos!

And you know me, I couldn’t resist taking a photo of this along the road. I thought it might have been politically motivated, but I think it was just a way to advertise for help wanted!

That’s about it for the day, we came back into Rockport and had a nice mid afternoon lunch at the Fish Shack.