All day at the beach.
We went to Morris Island at the south end of Chatham. An enlightened community to say the least.....
On prime property out there is a weather station/former Life Saving Station that has been in existence since before 1900. Its Federal designation means "the Little People" like myself are able to leak in to the community like a contagion - as long as we stay on our designated street in and out of the National Park property.
Swimming inside Chatham inlet provides a little bit less wave action more sea life for the kids to screw with and it allowed me prime binocular viewing of the breaks in the Nauset Sand spit where I could view wild ocean.
Some serious boating action out there that has the wife and I thinking of buying something. A center console Whaler would probably be ideal for us to run from shore to sand bar or harbor to harbor.
Later went to Chatham fish pier to see what the boats were hauling in...
Lots of Skate wings as is typical...
Usually they dump tubs of Sand Sharks and Skate. I was surprised to see a few tubs of good looking Cod are going to market. Hope they are finding plenty of these boys out there....
I dont know, looking at those fish now maybe not Cod, perhaps some sort of Pollock, Likely to go on the menu as Schrod I guess.
Seals didnt care anything that fell in was food....
Coast Guard maintains two more 42 foot Motor Life Boats (42002 and 42003) at the Chatham fish pier....
While at the beach I saw them rip through the inlet on a smaller RIB style, center console MLB with four man crew and twin outboard 150s. Through binos I could see everyone on board had a Sig on the belt. One of the reasons the FIL kind of soured on his second branch of service at the end of his career was the move in the organization towards more law enforcement activity. His thing was the life saving and safe boating function. He was of the opinion the CG should always be the guy you are happy to see show up not get an "Oh fuck!" reaction.
Pretty happy with how that young crew treated us the other day and proud to see "kids" handling a multi million dollar piece of equipment with great skill.