I made a quiche Lorraine! YUUUMMMO! Homemade crust and the whole shebang! It's a rainy, cooler day, so I immediately felt like baking something yummy today! I do love the fall - lovely fresh, local produce available and cool enough that you feel like cooking. Those chives in there? I grew those! Ok. Onto our trip! We stayed our first night and morning in the loveliest little harbor called Quisset. Here it is first thing in the morning:
Not much else there but other boats and a very friendly harbormaster guy that escorted us to our mooring when we got in the harbor. It was totally quiet and lovely and there were many people just enjoying relaxing and cooking on their boats. We made pizza that first night! It was really good! It was onion, orange pepper with regular mozzarella, buffalo mozzarella and homemade pizza sauce! Our boaty has an oven and a cooktop with four burners, so the possibilities are endless! It was really fun to cook on the boat, but I also love a challenge!I just ate a piece of quiche. Oh.My.LORD! So delicious! And my crust was really tasty!
Ok. Back to the trip. The first morning we had nice English Muffins and cream cheese with sliced scallions on them. (Can you tell food is slightly important to me?!!) We ate breakfast and then did a little fishing! We weren't sure what to expect, but POOF! We started catching these adorable little fish:
We had no idea what they were, but we luckily had a book on board of Massachusetts fish that you can legally keep, and it turns out they are called Scup! We, of course, were calling them scuppy scuppertons because we're daft! Aren't they cute, though! The book said that we could keep them if they were 10.5 inches or larger and that they were a mild-tasting fish, so we proceeded to fish until we caught that keeper there on the deck.We also caught this creepy looking thing:
It was disgusting and was flapping and flopping and jiggling all over the deck. It looked like a shrimpish alien. I did NOT like it one bit! We threw it right back so as to not allow it to burrow into our brains and take over our bodies! hee hee!After our fishing foray, we decided to leave Quisset and go somewhere that we could go on land, as I forgot to bring milk. Dang. So, after much discussion, we decided to head through Woods Hole and head over to Martha's Vineyard. Here we are approaching Woods Hole:
If you're not familiar, Woods Hole is one of a few openings to exit Buzzard's Bay and enter the waters south of Cape Cod (to get to the Vineyard or Nantucket). There can be treacherous currents in there when the tide is running hard, so you have to be very careful about when to enter that area, particularly if you're a sailboat. As luck would have it, the tides were favorable for us to go through there at about any time. So, after Woods Hole, we called around to see about getting a slip for the afternoon and that second night. As luck would have it, we found one of two available slips right in Vineyard Haven! It was pricey, but worth it, as we needed fuel. On the way into the harbor, we saw the UGLIEST boat that has ever existed:
It's a ferry, granted, but it's still the ugliest thing! It looked like a floating, giant box!Here's the harbor:
And take a peek at this nice little bungalow:
Not too shabby, huh?And this was the view from our slip:
One of the Nantucket Lightships!! I was thrilled! There have been several of them; they were used to mark the very dangerous Nantucket Shoals. They have since been decommissioned and some are private vessels, as this one appears to be! It was very cool to see it up close like this!Ok. That's all for today, kids. You're dismissed!
Have a lovely day!
It seems to moi that you had a wonderful trip. :0)
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Love the smell of the ocean.