Another lovely morning. A low cloud bank starting out but the sun climbed as it does and I rowed back from #4in the sunlight.
That mint green ketch in the anchorage off Horn Point has six or a dozen crows on the mainmast spreaders having a very heated exchange at 6:30 in the morning. Must have been fun to wake up to.
The avian species are starting to come back from summer vacation. There were a couple of flocks of geese, seagulls, a night heron, and an osprey or two. Conditions were lovely, even calm enough for paddle boarding out in the Severn. The water is still warm but there are tendrils of autumn about.
Stand up paddle boarding after dark on Back Creek with Brian Gomes and the Cap SUP crew.
What a lovely day. Air temp in the sixties and water in the eighties. A little green heron called out from horn point as I rowed out from the beach.
Still, warm, uneventful row until I caught the Naval Academy launch sneaking up on me. I stopped behind the buoyit generally turned around and got hit by a big complicated wave as it made the turn.
But later on I saw a cow nosed ray.
Lots of forrage fish jumping all over the Seven. The air was very still and steamy.
I was assigned to one of the older OC6 boats with some novices, some club members, and some out of town club members. We were out for about an hour.
One cormorant, two ospreys, no dolphin. Why are they hiding from me?
Gray and still and muggy with frequent eruptions of schools of fry.
The sea state was okay but the breeze was steadily building so I turned back at marker 5 and beat into a pretty hefty wind.