Discover Provincetown Custom Tours and Excursions: January 2017

If passengers mention topics that especially interest them, I'll give each one some extra attention.

I could talk for three weeks and never run out of things to show you or tell you about Provincetown and its amazing history! If I were to drive you down Commercial Street a dozen times, we could have a totally different tour on each trip, with characters, anecdotes and bits of history that were different on every tour. Various topics could lead us down narrow side streets in other neighborhoods, with different historic characters and stories unfolding all along the way. No two tours are alike. And, once I show you around the town, you will easily find your way to all of the things you'll want to visit, see, do and taste, all on your own. Make the most of your visit to the tip of Cape Cod… Come and join us as we Discover Provincetown!

Friday, January 13, 2017

Drift Whaling or Strandings Brought an Occasional Bonus to Provincetown Shores

This fin back whale no doubt brought a pretty penny to these gentlemen.

Whaling, in one way or another, brought in a good bit of Provincetown's income from the late 1700s till about 1920. Click this link to read my brief article on drift whaling. These men may have killed this whale at sea and then towed it to the shore behind their boat, or they may have happened upon a stranded whale that had died on the beach. It also could have died miles from here and then drifted to the shoreline, with the receding tide leaving the whale on the beach. Lines have been attached to keep this "catch" from washing out to sea on the next high tide.

"The Dark Side of Provincetown" is a special tour created for Halloween week, but great fun anytime

PTown has ghost stories to tell. Over the years we've had visits from a number of poltergeists, an epidemic that decimated our population, and tragic shipwrecks. We've seen and heard ghostly apparitions, felt a creepy chill on an August night, and made guesses about the disappearance of a Mayflower Pilgrim. We were forced to stand idly by while men perished in a submarine sunk off shore. What about a corpse propped up in the parlor for months? Folks staying in guesthouses have seen spirits and smelled something evil. Never mind the dismembered body found in the dunes, a grizzly murder or two, and our very own serial killer. Provincetown definitely has a Dark Side, and we explore it for Halloween, or by request at any time.