2023 Life Logs, Day 263: Monomoy Seal Cruise and FHS Soccer
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Weather: Drop Dead Beautiful Day; High 70, Low 56 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth, MA
What a beautiful day! The temperature was 70 degrees F, the wind was blowing in warm air from the west, the sun was shining brightly in a Cape Cod blue sky with just a few puffy white clouds to punctuate the beauty. And I went on a seal cruise on the Lower Cape, getting on the boat in Harwich Port and traveling by water out to Chatham to see the seals on Monomoy Island.
Monomoy Island is an 8-mile-long spit of sand that is truly beautiful. And those seals punctuated the beauty of the island
just as the clouds punctuated the beauty in the blue sky. This was a Newcomers-Encore Field Trip group excursion,
and it was a wonderful way to celebrate the end of summer. Summer officially ends at 2:50 am on this coming Saturday morning. I am hoping for a long second Cape Cod summer, but that doesn’t keep me from celebrating the calendar summer. Then I can celebrate again at the end of our second summer.
We had lunch at Clancy’s in Dennis on a little inlet from sea. The food matched the day. It was beautifully presented and tasted great. I got home around 3 pm, took Shadow out for a bathroom break, and then headed to the sports fields at Falmouth High School. Sam was playing a Varsity soccer game
on the main turf field and Jonah was playing a Junior Varsity game
on an adjacent field. I moved from one to the other and loved watching both grandsons playing the game they love for Falmouth High School. They have both been playing league soccer for the past couple of years. That was great but watching them on the fields today brought back memories of my high school days going to football games. There is something very special about participating in sports for your school and I am glad they made that choice this year.
