I returned yesterday rather late in the evening so I wasn't able to report back right away. All in all a good trip, I went to Martha's Vinyard (nothing to do with Martha Stewart apparently) on Tuesday, rather crowded because it was cloudy weather and no one was at the beach. I got to eat at the famous Black Dog Inn (it is supposedly known the world over), its rather surprising, not to say that it isn't good food (it is excellent), but its rather normal for being world famous. Good atmosphere is a factor I suppose, it also helps when it is Bill Clinton's favorite place to eat when he is on vacation up there. Lots of t-shirts and mugs and stuff for the place too, they have about three gift shops through out the island, I just got a t-shirt
. The rest of the island was really nice too, there was a very good and well stocked bookstore and plenty of places to eat. Not somewhere to go on a day trip, definitely seemed like the kind of place you could stay for weeks, and would have to, to get the most of it.
Later in the week I went to a place with a name I cannot recall to watch the fishing boats unload. That was the highlight of the trip, not only because it was kinda cool to see them unloading the fish, but also there were seals. I didn't really ask anybody if the seals came around the same time of day as the fishing ships, but the way they were acting seemed routine, a typical gathering point. They were look for stray scraps obviously, but the fishermen out of either generosity to the seals or the crowd through a few fish into the water. There was a mother and I believe three pups, I was able to get surprisingly close. There was dock nearby and someone that had some halibut and was feeding the seals, some of the smaller kids who were there were able to hold pieces of the fish out. Once in a while they would just randomly pop there heads from the water and look, a few times I was about a foot away from them, its amazing how there faces and heads are similar to a dog's.
Heh, I could write several more paragraphs but its late and I need to catch up on things
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