After Lindsay's wedding, we headed for Cape Cod again! This time we stayed for a super relaxing two weeks. I so we Kara drove up with us from Lindsay's wedding and stayed with us for four days. It was great to hang out with her. Beth, Marc and Brock came and visited for the weekend. We played Clue(do), Monopoly, Poker, mini golf (putt-putt and a few games in between. The days were spent reading, clam digging, fishing (well for me anyway), Hannah teaching me the finer points of rowing and just general relaxing.
Beth tee'ing off.
Marc and me clamming. He found one.
Hannah, the master clammer!
It has been a warm October so the days were beautiful. But the evenings were chilly so it gave us a great excuse to make a fire inside every night - we first had to figure out that the chimney damper needed to be opened after almost smoking ourselves out the first night.
We woke up one morning to see that the cranberry bog behind Hannah's house had, literally over night, become a blaze of red and crimson. The cranberries were being harvested!! We went down and spoke to the farmer for about two hours where we learned the differences and merits of dry picking vs wet picking.
The cranberry knocking machine
The cranberry bog
After two weeks of great relaxation, we were ready to go back to New York City!!
Fishing report
The fall season is prime time for striped bass, but the fishing can be quite temperamental (conditions dependent) and it was. The bass can literally be thick on one beach one night and absent on the same beach the following night. I put in a lot of time for bass, but only got a few smaller ones. I did manage to get some decent bluefish (6lbs) so that kept any kinks out of my line. I fished for the blues right off a sandbank drop off and once the tide started pushing the blues would come right up onto the sandbank and chase baitfish. The tide would rise at 15cm over 15mins so the fishing time was limited. It was quite something having to leave while the blues were smashing baitfish everywhere. (Sorry, no pictures as I was fishing alone)
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