Yes, again.
Pretty smooth out there and barely a breath of wind. Saw a cormorant and some fish broke the surface near me. I got a late start so there were a few fisherman out and a couple of paddleboarders and trotliners. I originally typed frotliners but that is a completely different thing.
Went out on a full ebb tide with haze from the Canadian fires and pretty lumpy seas (Sophie didn't mind at all). Saw a couple of watermen and a fishing boat out early. There were a lot of forage fish at the mouth of Back Creek.
I temporarily lost my phone in the car, so no documentation for this one unfortunately. But it's the same triangle as the last six months. Didn't see any fun sea creatures but cormorant, osprey, a big flock of gulls, and a great blue heron. I got a late start and came over the river after a couple of the YPs had moved over to the USNA seawall.
Soggy but fun. It's the best view of the boat collection. I'm presenting Sophie Coste at the "I built it Myself' exhibit.
Happy Juneteenth! It is a morning marred only by the incessant buzzing of fair weather fishermen in an awful hurry.
I saw an osprey overhead and finally rowed through a ball of forage fish at the mouth of Back Creek.
Tide is dead high and it is nearly windless. I threw in my anchor off the maritime museum beach and Sophie is still floating next to the slack line.
What a glass smooth morning! It was so quiet the predominant noises were the traffic on the rt 50 bridge and some cadre doing push-ups at the naval academy.
It's a morning for ducks and black backed gulls, though I did hear an osprey chirping somewhere.
Despite the quiet I almost ran into a big trawler who was gliding out of Back Creek. Sneaky bugger.
We took out CAPER a J32 from Chesapeake Boating Club for a few hours this afternoon. Busy out there and a little choppy but the wind was perfect.
Reminded today why I try to row early. Had to give way to four sailboats leaving Spa Creek under power and then had to listen to a thundering powerboat roaring all the way from the Bay Bridge to Round Bay. I think he was doing his best to create a sonic boom. I did get to see a few cormorants and gulls and the hazy morning let me see some juvenile fish by the maritime museum. Oh also got to see Living Classrooms' MILDRED BELLE and SIGSBEE who apparently overnighted in Back Creek.
Quel belle mere! What a harbinger of summer. Not a cloud in the sky nor a breath of wind in the river. Buckets of cormorants and ospreys out fishing. Gentle swells driven by the incoming tide and the occasional early fisherman.
Rowed through gentle mesmerizing swell from greenbury point. Saw a single male cormorant flying by. There is a ginormous James Bond style evil doer power catamaran heading in towards Back Creek.