Thursday I was off Woods Hole heading to where large fluke like to be reeled off the bottom. Last night we had panko fried fluke fillet with french fries. Tonight we have a sea bass that liked my fluke bait.
Heading there at dawn this is Nobska point on the left, Martha’s Vineyard on the right and a ferry in between. A cold front was backing in from the east making the clouds stack up at dawn.
Last night from Andrews Point the moon rose just to the left of the Sandy Bay breakwater. The green and red lights are on either end of the breakwater. Maybe 10:10PM tonight but looks a little too cloudy right now.
In real life I could see the lady, not the rabbit, or the old man:
Good Morning Gloucester 
Beautiful! You must’ve had a few Martini’s.
Great Shot.
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Before I got to the moonrise maybe just one as a painkiller as my ears were sunburned from fishing.
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Paul, nice shot of the Sound!
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Still getting the hang of wordpress and flickr. This is a tad bigger shot:
We’re probably coming up on Tarpolin Cove on Naushon and that is West Chop on the Vineyard. My two mates aboard could name the ferry (one works on them and the other works on NYC tugs) but I am a little rusty since really have not spent more time than fishing trips, weddings and funerals, down on the other Cape.
The last time I knew the names of all the ferries one of them was actually a steam ship.
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Looks great as my new desktop wallpaper! thanks, Paul
where do i send the royalty check?
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Send to “Save the Nobska Steamship” Woods Hole. Oh wait, they went defunct and the ship got scrapped. Send to care of “Get Paul Morrison season tickets to Shalin Lui, Rockport”.
One last fun fact: you can tell from the bottom left corner that we are going fluke fishing. The net is in the starboard fishing rod holder.
No, this is the last fun fact: Fortunately in 1973 I had a high school bud who knew history in the making so convinced me to take the ferry to the Vineyard to go surfing. I have been to the Vineyard more than a hundred times but that was my only trip by ferry. That summer was the last time a true steamship, The Nobska, made the trip. No surf, but still a memorable trip.
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This looks so much better when you click on the larger size. Awesome!!!!!
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Awesome pictures.
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