Day 3 : Wed, May 23, 2012 - 19.00 mi [Cycling] Nantucket to Siasconset & Polpis Loop

Wed, May 23, 2012 - 19.00 mi [Cycling]
19.00 mi in 01:37:05 hours at 11.74 mi/h on Trek .. [Cycling] Day 3 USA 2012 : Nantucket Siasconset Polpis Loop
An early morning bike ride to seethe island - a slight fret still but dry enough for a scout around and I have dried out the garmin so it is now working again.



Day 3 Narrative

I was up early again and my htoel in Nabtucket was really beautiful tucked away along a quiet side street just of an old fashioned High Street which wouldn't look out of place in the 1930s.
The hotel lady was kind enough to offer to dry all my now drenched cycle clothing and I now had dry gear again - the morning was misty but dry so off I cycled to see the island - I cycled through the quiet cobbled Nantucket Town heading east and soon picked up a perfect cycle track to Siasconsett the most easterly part of the island.
The roud forked and I headed left down a deda straight flat section which ran about 6 or 7 miles to Saisconsett.
I passed some fields with wooded animals - lions & giraffes etc. then I was at the Golf Course so I had to have a quick look :-)
Siasconsett made Nantucket look like a metropolis - I stayed and took a few photos but it was still a bit murky.
The Cycle path now turned North and then west back towards Nantucket. I passed the Lighthouse and another Golf Course which again I stopped to inspect for future reference !
I then passed a museum which had a Lighthouse Lamp outsode and looked really pretty and interesting .. unfortunately it was early, I didn't have time and the season didn't start till tomorrow so it was closed .. bad timing.
I got back to my hotel and said goodbye to my ridiculously small attc room (which was lovely and quaint) and I headed to the dock where I had been told Youngs cycle shop would clean the grime off my bike - it dodn't open till 8 and the ferry was at 8:45 - time for a quick blast I thought ... but they were really busy and couldn't manage so I had a look round the shop and bought myslef a Youngs Nantucket cycle top and matching socks ... very dapper I looked.
And there I was off on the ferry to Hyannis again to start my ride down to Woods Hole ferry to Marthas Vineyard.