There are portals to everywhere from here. We just got back from a tour of the marshes, looking at the great swans nesting there and the other seabirds, and walking the Fire Island barrier beach filling our pockets with shells.

Other portals (via the internet)extend to the artic and the antarctic where our hosts and their relatives function as environmental resource staff for National Geographic cruises. There are some great digital photos that Jen has of whales at play.

We also spent some time earlier this morning looking at a 1905 racing sloop that's being slowly put back together at the town marine museum.

This evening we'll have another song party, where hopefully another of my old shipmates from a 1965 cruise in the Bahamas will resurface.

Tuesday we'll head off to Orient Point and catch the ferry over to New London and continue our adventures. Wednesday we'll be at the song session in Gloucester with the Adeventure crew and Three Sheets to the Wind. We think it's still at the Schooner Pub.

Barry wants to bring back a pair of alpachas. I wonder what Justine will say.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble