When my son was here visiting last week we tried to catch sunset at a different beach each night. It was such fun but, boy was it cold!
This sunset was at Rock Harbor. I really like the tidal pools in the foreground and the yellow ring around the sun…
Pretty, don’t you think?
Wishing you all a Happy and Healthy New Year filled with love, peace, laughter, and a little bit of time outside! 🙂
We hiked out on the flats to the Rock Harbor Channel, where the boats go in and out, on the Eastham side the other day. It was so much fun. I had never walked out that far or been so close to the channel markers before. You can see why boats can only use the channel close to high tide.
Pretty cool, don’t you think?
We were driving back from town yesterday morning when we saw this fishing boat in the icy channel at Rock Harbor in Orleans. I took a few photos, thinking it was stuck in the ice.
We drove down to the pier and saw some of the crew working feverishly on board to get the outriggers down. We wondered how they would get off of the boat that was stuck in the ice.
Much to our surprise they started the engines up and took off through the ice, and very easily I might add, out to the rough seas. I realized that they couldn’t put the outriggers down going down the channel in the harbor as it is not wide enough so they had to stop at the mouth of the harbor to put them down. And then I researched what they are used for and learned that the outriggers widen the trolling area for fishing.
The moral of this story… don’t write the story before it plays out! I had it all written and then a nice surprise!
