Aug 8, trip to pick up the crew at Seal Island

August 8 Seal Island, posted Sept. 29

The Tropicbird was there to see the crew off,

hanging about in the morning for a while, it seems to have lost one of the tail feathers.

a more disturbing development has been our dear friends habit of hanging around with pot bouys with red spindles.

We swung by Matinicus Rock, then they commenced Ukeing

In the Bay there were all kinds of boats

 there is a longstanding tradition of seeing bonapartes gulls in summer plumage in Rockland harbor, on this trip, this one was in the reach though.

long legged common tern