Enjoying a Nor’easter — pat morss

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Actually, it was well offshore, but it created some swells.

I expected surfers at Brace Cove, but they had a different idea about conditions.
However, there were hundreds of gulls foraging for food in the waves.
The surf was churning up the ecosystem near the beach.
The gulls were skimming over the wave crests and landing to feed.
They repeated the pattern, flying above each retreating swell.
Mostly Laughing Gulls, with Black-backed, Herring and Ring-billed mixed in.
Later Saturday afternoon, Adventure headed out with a “bone in her teeth.”
The swells were larger out by the whistle buoy off Eastern Point lighthouse.
It must have been an awakening for some of the guests.
A sense of normal conditions on the Grand Banks, if 40-degrees colder.
Probably enough of this for now.
Tacking. “Ready about.” “Hard a-lee.”
It’s nice to see Adventure in her element.
Now a smoother ride back into Gloucester Harbor.
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