Party Cove

This morning we learned that the cove below our villa is a big party destination. The festivities started early, as a parade of boats headed to the cove and dropped anchor, and their occupants started playing music, singing, and swimming. Several of the boats anchored side by side and lashed themselves together to form a kind of pontoon arrangement. I’m guessing that a few adult beverages also may have been imbibed.

I don’t know whether all of the boaters that stopped by were Sicilian, but I do know this: they all really seemed to be having a good time.

At The Community Boat Dock

There’s a community boat dock in Southwest Harbor, Maine.  And when they say “community,” they mean community — every square inch of mooring space is taken, and then some.

I found this completely engaged community dock curiously encouraging.  Obviously, the boaters of Southwest Harbor, with diverse crafts of all shapes, sizes, and conditions, can get together and make accommodations tthat permit their mutual use of, and benefit from, this single dock.

Who knows? Maybe there’s hope that the rest of us can do likewise.