Peachy Sky at Marker 5

Watch your depth, the tide is low. The sun is dropping, ushering the light away and giving the water an uninviting darkness, but the seas are calm, breeze so fresh and colors are vivid. Traveling on through Dorchester Bay the sky is bright with a hazy peach colour as the last minutes of sunset pass by giving way to vibrant pre-darkness blue tones. In the early days, sailing into Boston Harbor would have looked much different. The day marker #5 proudly stands in 16ft/5m water on the edge of Castle Island’s shallows and the channel into the harbor with only the company of the cormorants and seagulls perched upon its structure. The sun still quickly setting and darkness swelling reveals the just lit city lights and planes overhead while what little is left of the natural light is dancing away from center stage. This calm feeling, the comfort of the waves, saltiness of the air, smell of the low tide, the enveloping energy of freedom surmounts to the crescendo of a summer sunset at sea. Once we return to our berth and turn to the shore the clock seems to hang over our heads as we countdown to the next trip back to sea to find that feeling again.

Words & Images by G. Lewandowski