Here you see the tide and a Tom Curry cloud slowly leaving Great Cove yesterday morning. But, you don’t see any of the many boats that give the Cove a wonderfully different – though not necessarily better – character during the summer. The winter ducks and loons are now slowly replacing them.
In the above image, you’re looking West-Northwest through the Cove to Eggemoggin Reach. That’s Little Babson Island on the left and the WoodenBoat School pier on the right. The speck in front of the island is a WBS mooring raft used to install and remove moorings; it soon will be brought in. Tom Curry (as many of you know) is a renowned Brooklin artist who often paints distinctive clouds over islands.
Actually, there still are two or three vessels in the southwestern corner of the Cove near the end of Babson Island, which are unseen here to the left of Little Babson. These late leavers soon will be brought ashore for the winter, but they still include “Frolic,” our neighbor’s beautiful Luders 16:
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on September 29, 2024.)