With the dredging completed and the pilings back in place, we’ve been waiting to see when the fishing boats would come back to Rock Harbor. Would they wait until warmer spring weather or hope the weather isn’t too cold to form ice on the harbor and come back now?
We were thrilled to see Miss Heather moored at the dock the other day and ready to go out!
…Salt is the breath of ocean slopes and fresher blows the breeze,
And swifter still each bounding keel cuts through the combing seas,
Athwart our masts the shadows of the dipping sea-gulls float,
And all the water-world’s alive when the fishing boats go out.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-the-fishing-boats-go-out/