Friday May 13th 2016

Nothing bad has happened today. I haven’t seen any black cats or walked under any ladders so all the superstitions are safe until the next Friday the 13th.

It was a warm day today, in the 70s inland and like yesterday about 10 degrees cooler here at the Cape Cod canal. The sun never really came out. By mid afternoon the clouds were dropping lower. For a few minutes around 4PM the canal was completely fogged in. I couldn’t see the bank on the far side. The fog lasted less than a half hour before it lifted. About 6:30 the rain arrived. It’s not raining hard, but it is steady.

As I mentioned yesterday most of the seasonals have arrived for the weekend. The odd thing is there aren’t as many regular weekend campers as there have been the last couple of weekends. The forecast isn’t that bad so I don’t know what drives the volume of campers. I thought that the numbers would increase each weekend as summer approaches.

Rusty fishing boat.

The late afternoon entertainment was a road race on the canal service road. A relay road race from Hull Ma to Provincetown Ma went along the service road then turned inland toward route 6 through the campground. I looked up the web site for the race and it is called the Reebok Ragnar Cape Cod Relay. The teams run over 200 miles. I don’t know where the current segment started or ends, but some of the runners needed to switch off soon.

Sailboat with its crew in full rain gear.

There was very little activity in the canal this afternoon. I saw one fishing boat and one sailboat. The wildlife was also scarce. Most of the usual complement of birds were elsewhere and I haven’t seen any indication of the seals people saw yesterday.