While I've spent a little time in the east, most of that focus was on NYC, and I'd never really experienced the true New England summer that all my East Coast friends rave about and grew up on.
During our time here, we visited with her folks, went striper fishing with her father on his Whaler (The Pipsqueak), spent a decent amount of time meeting and visiting with Kristin's energetic, childhood friends, and even got to spend part of a day on Jeff's commercial lobster boat (Water Dog II). Kristin of course had a packed schedule for us. Most days we were up at the crack of dawn and not home until I was ready to collapse. We had a wonderful time checking out all the small towns, each quainter than the last.
I was really surprised and pleased to see just how much the New Englanders take care of and use their surrounding bays and ocean. Tons of people each day headed out to fish, lobster or just pleasure cruise all over the area, up and down the coast. It was a great visit and I definitely look forward to exploring the greater area more some summer in the future – seems like there's lots of nooks and crannies all up and down the coast to explore.
We now find ourselves in the middle of the long haul – over 30 hours of travel – to Rwanda, the next stop on our adventure.
Beautiful view back to Boston from quaint Cohasset
New England Architecture is very, um New English
Every home sports the American Flag here, even vintage ones
Lifeguard on-guard at Sandy Beach
Michael set me up to hook a nice little schoolie
Getting bait in Glouster
Jeff's salty and mostly seaworthy, Water Dog II
Me with the captain
A small sampling of the copious amount of herring we brought for bait
The bait was popular with all sorts of sea species
The scene was reminiscent of a Hitchcock film
Kristin and Jeff with some of our catch
A beautiful place here in The East – sunset view over Little Harbor
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