Marconi Site and Provincetown

Last week, DayTripper Rick Silva had friends visiting at their place at Ogremoot on Cape Cod. "If [people are] visiting for the first time," says Rick, "one thing you've got to do is take the ride out to Provincetown, all the way at the end of the Cape."So, we set out Tuesday morning, and our first stop was the Marconi Site on the Cape Cod National Seashore in South Wellfleet MA.

This was the site where Guglielmo Marconi sent the first wireless telegraph message from the USA to England, bearing a greeting from President Theodore Roosevelt to King Edward VII.

Actually, it occupies about half of the original station. Erosion has washed away about half of the land on which the transmitter stood. Inside the shelter is a model of Marconi's station. The Marconi Site has free parking, hiking trails, and beautiful views of the ocean, but no direct access to the beach. Although it isn't completely clear from Rick's photos, there is a sheer forty-foot drop down to the beach below.

See Rick's full photo essay on our Gather blog.