White Elephant Dredging Project

The dredging project at the White Elephant/Children's Beach area is well underway. A deep pit was dug up on Children's Beach to accept the spoils. I'm thinking it will eventually be covered up with clean sand. After dredging the White Elephant/Children's Beach area, the dredge will move over to in front of the new Great Harbor Yacht Club at the end of Washington Street to start dredging there.

Here are a few pictures I took this morning of the dredge being used and the location of the dredged material which is being pumped up on Children's Beach-

Hawk & Scenes From Monomoy

The other day, I spotted this hawk down near the cricks eating a duck. It was very small and had yellow legs. It looked like a Red-Tailed Hawk but it was about half the size. Does anyone know what kind of hawk it is?


A flock of Canada Geese seen today off Monomoy-


Today's sunset taken from Monomoy-

Cold And Grey Scalloping Today

I grabbed a few shots while I was out scalloping today-

Carl Sjolund heading out-


Steve Lawrence-


Lionel Starr-


The sun eventually came out.
Captain Harvey-



Bernie-


And here's a short video clip I took early this morning from my boat. Sorry for all the wind noise on it.-

Scalloping At Sunrise

Spectacular sunrise out scalloping yesterday-


Here are a few shots I grabbed using my iPhone-




Freddy and Jake-

Cold Turkey Plunge

I went to the Cold Turkey Plunge this morning at Children's Beach and grabbed a few shots-

Aerial Shots of Scalloping

My friend George Riethof took to the air on Monday in his Cessna 172 Skyhawk and grabbed a few shots of me scalloping in the harbor. Thanks, George!

Random Scenes

Paving at Great Harbor Yacht Club during the first snowfall of the year-


First snowfall as seen from Sayle's-


Work at the new Old North Wharf pier-


Carl Sjolund unloading his full limit of scallops-



Scallopers working late in the day-


Mac heading in after a successful morning of scalloping-


The end of a cold day-

Video of Scallopers Waiting To Unload Their Catch

Here is a video the Cape Cod Times shot on Thursday. It was when we were not allowed to land at the dock or unload our limit of scallops until The Marine Department gave the go ahead. We spent almost five hours floating around the Boat Basin waiting for the news that it was okay to land and unload our scallops. Hint: Watch the video in high quality.

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Back To Commercial Scalloping

We were finally allowed to get back out on the water yesterday and resume fishing. The State voted to allow the fishermen to legally harvest the nub scallop. Now it's back to business as usual for the fishermen after being off the water for a week and a half.

Here's the sunrise from yesterday-


As the sun was rising, there was a rainbow in the western sky. I have never seen the sun rising and a rainbow at the same time. Amazing-


And the scene from Hussey Shoal early this morning with everyone having a good time back scalloping and catching their full limits of scallops-



A tug came in recently to tow one of AGM's barges back to the mainland from Old North Wharf-


I spotted the Milestone recently at the Town Pier. She's an Ottison built boat. I have not seen her for a long long time. I remember Lowell Whitford used to fish her. Nice to see her back-


Marina Finch at George Andrew's scallop shanty on Old North Wharf-


Captain Bob Rank scalloping in the thick fog-

Jacked Up On Commercial Wharf

This old cottage on Commercial Wharf has recently been raised high in the air. Amazing job by the contractor!

Frogman Tim

A few days before the start of the commercial scallop season started, I took Tim Mooney out on my boat to have a look around. We found tons of nub scallops out there in the harbor-





I spotted these two KC-10 aircraft high above the harbor locked together in the middle of refueling-