A Quick Getaway

It's hard to believe that for most of twelve years, between 2000 and 2012, I commuted between Brookline and Edgartown every week, leaving my apartment every Monday morning to catch the 10:45 ferry over to the Island, and making the reverse trip on the 5:00 ferry on Tuesday evening back to the mainland. These days I'm lucky to get off the Island every six months, and when I do it feels like a huge production. 

Anyway, yesterday I made a quick trip over to the Cape for an appointment and a couple of errands. Sitting in my car on the freight deck was stifling, but I managed to find an open porthole to stand beside on both trips, which both cooled me off and afforded me the opportunity to take a few snaps, employing the G7x on my way off, and the R with the 70-200 lens on my way home.

  The rowing dory Grace, The Black Dog, and a red umbrella.
Nautical Still Life 
The Alabama. I wish I had noticed the human up aloft in the rigging, but everything happens very quickly on a moving ferry. 
Nautical Still Life #2
Looking westward towards Tashmoo and Pilot Hill
West Chop Light
Buoy #2. "Red right returning."
East Chop Light. 
After being cooped up all afternoon, and since there was still some light left in the day (fading fast, folks), I hopped on my bike and took a short cruise through town where I found, among other things, fisher-boys (and I believe one actual Fisher) down at the town wharf, slaying the menhaden (bunker).