 Butterfly watchers can see monarchs, sulphur butterflies, and red admirals that stop here to drink nectar from wildflowers before continuing their southward migration.Algonquian people camped at this site in warm weather; the name is said to come from "wannasque", an Algonquian word meaning "the ending".European settlement came to this part of Chappaquiddick Island in 1750 or later.