A Post in Blues / Down the River

Each year when I’m home in Maine, my family takes a trip in our Boston Whaler (artfully named the Blood Vessel by my brother when he was about four and my dad had just published a new murder mystery novel) down the Kennebec River to the ocean. For the last few years, we’ve timed the trip perfectly for a day that’s just too hot to do anything else. We decided that the Whaler on the Maine coast was the coolest spot in the state last Tuesday!

It was also just so blue. Lately, I’ve had a thing for photos of sea plus sky. I love the combinations of different blues meeting each other.

We happened upon a few kids’ sailing races that were really funny to watch. I’m sure there was some order, but they looked like chaos! This little guy in the foreground was bringing up the rear. I don’t blame him, though, there was hardly a breeze at all!

We also saw a whole lot of lobster boats pulling pots and getting dive-bombed by seagulls. There were some new color combos on the lobster buoys that I really enjoyed – very trendy with neon and gold accents! Of course, we were zipping along too quickly to take many lobster buoy photos!

I’m not sure we’ve ever had such a calm day for a trip down the river. It was so calm we took the Blood Vessel out to the open water, and even there it was still calm! I love that moment where the sea and the ocean meets, where the blues get a smidge darker but you can’t tell whether it’s the sea or the sky that has changed. It’s so different in Ireland and Maine; in Ireland it’s more often a mixture of green and blue and grey. But this is just how I remember the Maine version – blue upon blue upon blue.

Luckily, we’ve been making a pretty smooth transition back to life in Dublin – we arrived to blue skies that stayed for days without a single cloud. We even spent a few hours on Saturday on the beach – sunbathing! In a bathing suit! And we weren’t the least bit cold. I’ve quickly worn out the phrase I can’t believe it!