Island Hopping

While we had every intention of casting the lines off Aquidneck Island and heading for Cuttyhunk, we instead chose to ride the more favorable conditions pointing us toward Block Island. We set out just before 11:30 and just as the morning fog began to lift. With 6-8 knots of wind from the south, we motor-sailed on a close reach through patches of fog until we reached green B1 where we could barely make out Block Island which emerged tentatively as a smudge a shade deeper than the surrounding light gray. Once inside the Great Salt Pond, we picked up a mooring, brought Izzie ashore and walked to town for an ice cream. We ambled past mature outgrowths of beach roses, sand dunes, cattails, and past a honeysuckle-lined street -- in hot conditions which were soon moderated by our return to Puffling where the air was cool and increasingly damp, and where fog soon swallowed the surrounding landscape, then nearby boats. For dinner: salmon sandwiches with chili-lime mayo and green beans with dill. Dan and Bodhi are currently finishing a game of chess and I just heard "'check mate."

Time for bed.

Love to all,

Pufflings