Plymouth Lobster Crawl Scheduled For November

We headed for Plymouth to warm up for November's Lobster Crawl...

The Lobster Crawl visits most of the 29 lobsters on the Plymouth Lobster Trail.

Most of the lobbies are in the waterfront section of downtown Plymouth, some are on Main Street and one is way the hell down off Exit 3.

The crutch doesn't seem to fit the legs, but that's how ish goes down on the Lobster Crawl, player...

This one, which is down by Plymouth Rock, was just returned after a miscreant borrowed it for a few weeks.

Let's see when I run out of caption material and start pasting directly from the Plymouth Lobster Crawl website.

When this doctor gets ready for that COUGH part of the exam, run from the room.

The Lobster Crawl doesn't touch all of the lobsters, just the ones located near pubs and taverns.

"Natty Dread Rides Again..."

This is the Redbrook lobster, located way off of the Crawl Trail. He's down in the woods between Plymouth and Wareham, in the new housing development.

I don't know how Brockton (check his left claw) got into this, but it gives me an excuse to post this article in the 50,000 member Brockton Hub group.

College Lobby, hanging around the Plymouth campus of Quincy College.

I can't tell you how much time I spent sitting here trying to think of lobster takes on the names of famous guitarists. If he were outside the bookstore, we could call him Jimmy Page. If he were near the lumber yard, he could be Ron Wood. He's neither.

A few cones sure did screw up my lobster shot.

Sorry, Charlie...

Somebody borrowed Miss Clawmerce before Cranberry County showed up...

The Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce and Benchmark Mortgage present the First Annual Lobster Pub Crawl. The Crawl is designed to incorporate Chamber member businesses with the Chamber's public art display; The Plymouth Lobster Crawl. 

The event has planned to follow a timeline with 45-minute stops at each location (8-10 bars) and visit fifteen of the twenty-nine lobsters along the way.

Pub-Crawlers will sip on local beers and signature cocktails while viewing the largest public art display in Plymouth. At each lobster participants will receive raffle tickets and be entered into main raffle at the the last stop. 

All pub-crawlers will receive the official t-shirt, bag, wristband and koozie with registration. This event is limited to 100 people and pricing applies to Members and Non Members.

All Participants must be 21 or up to participate, IDs will be checked when you sign in.

Ticket Cost:

$28 Group/Corporate Rate (4 or more people)

$30 Early Bird Rate (August 15th-September 30th)

$35 After September 30th

All Pub-Crawlers should plan to meet starting at 2:30 on the Plymouth Waterfront at the Amphitheater. Registered participants my join or leave the crawl at any point. Shirts and bags are limited.

Disclaimer:

The Plymouth Area Chamber of Commerce(PACC), Benchmark Mortgage as well as all Plymouth Lobster Crawl Sponsors takes no responsibility for harm or injury received by participants of this event.

This release extends and applies to, and also covers and includes, all unknown, unforeseen, unanticipated and unsuspected injuries, damages, loss and liability and the consequences thereof, as well as those now disclosed and known to exist.

I further understand and agree that my participation in the Pub Crawl is not to be construed as an admission of any liability of and acceptance of assumption of responsibility by the PACC Lobster Crawl, Benchmark Mortgage, its officers, board, and employees, jointly and severally, for all damages and expenses for PACC Lobster Crawl, its officers, board and employees, become liable as a result of any alleged act by me. I understand that I am encouraged by PACC or Benchmark Mortgage to drink responsibly and I am encouraged to not drink to excess. 

 I agree not to drive during or after the PACC Lobster Crawl after consuming alcoholic beverages. All attendees will be provided transportation contact information at the beginning of the crawl. 

All Participants must be 21 or up to participate, IDs will be checked when you sign in. 

Sat, November 4, 2017

3:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT

Osterville Nature Check, Armstrong Kelley Park and Skunknett River

I lead a pretty technological/industrial lifestyle, am just smart enough to be aware of it, and try to get out into nature now and then. These are some shots from Armstrong Kelley Park in Osterville.

Armstrong Kelley Park has been around for almost 90 years, and is run by the Cape Cod Horticultural Society.

Among the offerings here are a Garden of Verses, a Pet Memorial Garden, rhododendron, magnolias, cedars, hillside trails and God knows what else. I'm pretty sure that this tree is a Weeping Pine.

I went in June, took a bunch of pics, forgot about them for 2 months... so if you go down there today and the flowers aren't as nice as they look in my pics, I apologize. 

At least one photographer superior to myself has told me that I need to remember to Get Low on some shots. It may have been post-June, however.

If you went to any of my high school teachers and told them that I'd grow up (in a sense) to be a nature photographer, they'd think that you have the wrong guy. When I went back to Duxbury High School to do my student teaching, one teacher who I had as a kid came up to me, asked if I had been in jail since graduation, and- when I answered no- went over and handed a $20 bet payoff to another of my old teachers.

Prolly shoulda zoomed out...

... but, instead, I zoomed IN.

A few poems for you...

God or the gardener went a little Full Rhododendron when designing AKP.

We also trekked over to the Skunknett River Wildlife Sanctuary. "Skunknett" is Algonquin for "a place to fish for eels."

We managed to scare a duck.

Thanks for having us, Osterville!

Nauset Light

Seems like a good place to start...

They weren't lyin'... there's the trail.

Foggy mornings on Cape Cod immediately get me thinking of lighthouses... except when I come here, and I end up wanting potato chips.

I hack away with my camera, forgetting to time the shot to catch the light coming around.

Boom!

Thanks for having us!

Harboring: Hull

It's a Hull of a day for our Harboring series!

Hull, home to Nantasket Beach and the former Paragon Park, juts out into the sea. It's very much like Duxbury, geologically or whatever term I should use there.

Hull was named for Kingston-on-Hull, England. Captain Issac Hull, who would be a pretty cool guy to name a town after, came to be about 150 years after Hull was settled. Captain Hull had a set of balls just like these, and he is famed for leading the Constitution against the British ship Guerriere and taking home the W. Lots of towns are indeed named after him, but not this Hull.

"Nantasket" means either "low tide place" or "at the strait" in Native American. The "Hull" part of Kingston-upon-Hull refers to the River Hull back in the jolly old E.

Speaking of hulls, they need to get this one in the water. I was here in late July, for the love of Mary.

Several staff members have noted that the boat only has to be red to become one of my favorites and to get a place in our article.

This looks suspiciously like one of those Redneck Superman memes where some guy in Alabama turns a sofa into a boat.

Other than New Bedford and, amazingly Sandwich... it's a bit strange to see a building with more than two stories turn up in our Harboring series.

Amazingly, we found that the One Foot Of Water Dock was unoccupied.

Chains look artsy when better photographers are sizing up the shot, but I do what I can for you people.

That is "A Street," rather than a play on the "I'm not a fast Captain, I'm not a slow Captain, I'm a half-fast Captain" joke.

I turned up in Hull on a raw and windy day, hence the inactivity on the docks.

Cutest boat in the harbor.

We're twenty articles into our Harboring series, and I still go "Ooooh, boat stuff, let's get a pic!"

Hey! You were already in this article!

Hull's boatyards are sheltered by Hull itself, I didn't see one boat on the ocean side of town.

God tilted the Earth on me right when I was lining up my cute Harbormaster shack photo.

It's odd to take a picture of a harbor and have the wind-powered thing in it not be a sailboat.

A quick Nantasket shot... hey, we end up where we end up, folks.

Note the Fisherman's Cooler tied to the back of the boat.

I may be disoriented, but I think that's World's End in the background.

If they made that boat cover go all the way to the top in a point, this boat would look like a floating DUNCE cap or a drowning KKK guy.

The kayak rental business slows on cold, raw days.

Hull, which may have cleaned up since my late July arrival, had the red seaweed problem that other Irish Riviera beaches had.

Hull needs just a few more of these to make a Newton's cradle. Named after English 17th century scientist Isaac Newton, a Newton's Cradle is a device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy using a series of swinging spheres.

The downside of having children scrawl the magazine name into the sand is that sometimes they put an extra N in "Cranberry."