A beautiful sunrise and row to the lighthouse when I notice the big orange “lobster”. Know to the marine community as “Chester” it is used to chomp up the water chestnuts that plague our estuary. Some volunteers where driving it south towards Esopus and I was surprised at how fast it travels! I finally caught up to it, exhausted, and got a nice shot of it rolling along. Then I head back down past the lighthouse on the Creek when I notice a familiar dock meandering with the ebb tide on its way to the Hudson and points south. I wonder how far it would have gotten before the tides would have reversed and sent it north again. Would it have found its way home? I DOUBT IT! Anyway I got a group of rowers to help me climb aboard and tie it to the jetty so that someone could pick it up and take it back home.Like I say, I can’t make this stuff up! Never a dull moment on the Rondout Creek
