After photographing Dan Sauer in his backyard garden on Tuesday, I decided to hang around Aquinnah for a little bit. Aquinnah is the westernmost area of Martha’s Vineyard and is home to less than 400 people, a third of whom (more or less) are Wampanoag. The town actually used to be known by the English name of Gay Head until they decided to change back to its original Wampanoag appellation.
There isn’t all that much to do in Aquinnah…unless you’re a tourist and want to visit the cliffs. Of course, even homegrown Islanders should visit the cliffs, because they are simply gorgeous.
This photo has probably been taken several thousand times by now, but never on my camera:
Some more ‘been-there, taken-that’ pictures:
I came down from the lookout point to find two girls squealing about a little black snake on the path (“Pick it up!” “It might be poisonous!” “Just pick it up!”). An older naturalist-type guy walked up and scooped up the snake for the girls to see (it wasn’t poisonous, for the record…). In related news, I’m not sure those shorts count as shorts.
