{"id":120,"date":"2009-05-24T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-05-24T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T20:14:00","slug":"travelogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":">Travelogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s open season for sail now, and we are initiating the summer with a sail to Eastern Long Island Sound.&#160; Our next stage of summer sailing will be Narragansett Bay and the Cape, and our final sailing grounds will be Penobscot Bay area of Maine.&#160; I always provision the boat with lots of projects, so I will continue to post about weaving, knitting, and spinning. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/ShmqgzcZirI\/AAAAAAAAA6Y\/-hV-IIYTQPI\/s1600-h\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20002%5B3%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 002\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 002\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/ShmqhrjfKPI\/AAAAAAAAA6c\/B_yQEhMJOyg\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20002_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Middle Ground: literally halfway in the sound,both East\/West and North\/South.&#160; We are headed for Mattituck Inlet, near the Hamptons on LI<\/p>\n<p>We were virtually alone on the water Friday!&#160; We saw one tug pulling a barge, but we did see lots and lots of helicopters heading out to the Island.&#160; Some people still have enough money to travel in style!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Shmqiy5eS2I\/AAAAAAAAA6g\/PiDuuh68A4Q\/s1600-h\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20008%5B3%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 008\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 008\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/ShmqjspY3hI\/AAAAAAAAA6k\/e8IiDxp3-Y8\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20008_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Entering Mattituck Inlet, a long narrow inlet with lots of interesting bird life.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>After anchoring and preparing dinner during sunset, we spent the next day ashore, taking a 2-mile walk to a local winery which took us through a neighborhood of modest, lovingly maintained houses and gardens (rhodies and lilacs in bloom).&#160; We bought cheese at a local shop and had it for lunch with wine on the deck of the tasting room, amidst a Mediterranean style garden (pinks and nepeta in bloom and buds on the lavendar) overlooking the vineyard.    <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Shmqk0xXh2I\/AAAAAAAAA6o\/lLzi-7cXG1A\/s1600-h\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20010%5B3%5D.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 010\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 010\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Shmql_duaEI\/AAAAAAAAA6s\/nL1RwpyiLrE\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20010_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Goats at a small residence on our way to Shinn Vineyard.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Shmqm4UJS9I\/AAAAAAAAA6w\/nmIXe1zmcSY\/s1600-h\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20013%5B3%5D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 013\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 013\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Shmqn0iDroI\/AAAAAAAAA60\/rhPsvqvxw-s\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20013_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Sod farm barn across the street from the entrance to Shinn Vineyard<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/ShmqpFI34OI\/AAAAAAAAA64\/evxLXlkqioo\/s1600-h\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20016%5B3%5D.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 016\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"184\" alt=\"Memorial day cruise 2009 016\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/Shmqp516EpI\/AAAAAAAAA68\/QCLYL-FGfe8\/Memorial%20day%20cruise%202009%20016_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"244\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Shinn Vineyard, the only bio-dynamic vineyard on the Island at present<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Water front activities<\/strong>     <br \/>We\u2019ve seen lots of ospreys and babies in the nest (is there a name for a juvenile osprey?).&#160; One interesting sight was a particularly aggressive osprey who chased an egret in flight all around the harbor.&#160; The next day that same osprey chased a little plover all over the sky.&#160; I\u2019ve never seen an osprey do that.&#160; Motoring back out of the inlet we saw a bald eagle sitting in a tree, and an osprey sitting on her nest with two swans in the water right below her.&#160; 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