Southwest from the Water.

8-17-14 VERMONT: We got back yesterday afternoon in time to collect the dogs and bring them home. There was much squirming, jumping and licking. This morning, our anniversary BTW, they are all calmed down. We had 1.3 inches of rain in the gauge here plus a bit more last night. Today is cool and cloudy.

The day before yesterday we spent on the water in Southwest Harbor. In the morning we went out in the Picnic Boat for a tour of the watery side of the neighborhood. After lunch Ken and I were out in the sailboat with his friend John. There wasn’t a lot of wind, but we did find some near Northeast Harbor, and then we fell into a fog bank and needed the radar to creep back to Southwest Harbor. Dinner was at XYZ, Penny and Harry joined Ken, Carol, Judy and me for Mexican.

New blooms: white star clematis, white phlox.


Boat ride.

Fog appears, moves in, moves out, disappears and reappears.

Lighthouse on Sutton Island.

East Bunker Ledge at low tide. That ledge is mostly covered at high tide. The pyramid is the warning marker, and that thing on top is a flag, bent to the right. Next to the flag staff is a bald eagle.

There were many impressive yachts in the harbor. Here are two...

And here's another.