We made an early start today while the weather is cool because the forecast is in the 80’s. No clouds today so we can see seven contrails. Four commercial jetliners fly over on different paths while we come and go.
Seven boats are oystering when we start and two more join in by the time we return.
The fancy pier is re-equipped with a boat in one sling. An interesting twelve-by-twelve platform built on the beach near this pier has a small flat bottomed boat with a horse and a half outboard slung under the platform. The platform is six feet up with no stairs or ladder. The piling at each corner extends another six feet above the platform. This small boat was removed, too, at the same time as the big one.
The water is very quiet and we are at mid tide; no breeze. The German Pointer is now gone and the only noise, other than jets passing over, is made by various birds. Just a few can be seen; no eagles or hawks or herons. A few shore birds we’d seen before hop along the water in front of us and a few doves show up midway.
Several tiny deceased crabs are scattered along the way. Only one of them is big enough to show the typical blue coloring. The numbers are increasing!
A sad note is loss of a chunk of bank in front of a house perched within twenty feet of the edge. Repair work was done on this spot about six month earlier, filling a washed-out place about eight feet wide, five deep and right back almost to the house foundation. Large metal stakes for bracing were also dislodged. A single elderly lady lives in the house and we had tried to convince her to move rather than attempt these repairs. It took an eighteen inch rainfall to cause the initial damage. The current problem was caused by just two.—-
