Daily Archives: September 14th, 2011

Essex River Cruise

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Since I was in bed at 9, I woke up at 6 AM – unheard of! Finally, I stopped trying to get back to sleep and started checking email and message boards. Susan woke up and we started planning our day.

There was an Essex River Cruise leaving a 1 and we decided to get on it.

The captain gave a wonderful narration of the islands, wildlife and the estuary itself.

The word “estuary” is derived from the Latin word aestuarium meaning tidal inlet of the sea, which in itself is derived from the term aestus, meaning tide. There have been many definitions proposed to describe an estuary. The most widely accepted definition is: “a semi-enclosed coastal body of water, which has a free connection with the open sea, and within which sea water is measurably diluted with freshwater derived from drainage.

Check out this video of our trip that someone posted oh YouTube;

See all the pictures here: https://picasaweb.google.com/111010152758124757139/EssexRiver

After the cruise we decided to wander around the little seaside town of Rockport. Lots of neat shops. We went into the candy shop and didn’t come out empty handed…

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Heading to Gloucester

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No pictures today but it was a good flight to Logan airport in Boston. I flew on JetBlue using credits from a flight I didn’t take earlier this year.

My friend, Susan, met me at the airport and had even made a sign with my name on it like the chauffeurs hold.

We headed out to Gloucester but very close to the apartment she had rented there was an accident blocking the road and wasn’t sure how to get back so we went for an early dinner.

We lucked into a wonderful restaurant called Lat43. Then we stopped for some groceries and headed “home”. The accident had been cleared so we got all the way there.

I got a tour of the apartment and unpacked a bit.

I’d missed my nap so it was an early bed (for me!) at 9:30.

Tomorrow will have lots of pictures from a river cruise.

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