Before Earl

This year we are vacationing on Martha's Vineyard, in a beautiful secluded spot on Edgartown Great Pond here. The house is located at the end of a mile-long unpaved sandy driveway (which, turns out, is quite challenging to navigate on a roadbike). The house came with a fleet of kayaks, a motor boat and a sail boat (non-functioning). 20 minutes on a motor boat gets you to a deserted beach. At times, we were the only ones there for miles in each direction, but the waves on this ocean facing beach were rather harsh, so for swimming we drove to a state beach, protected from the ocean by a smaller island Chappaquiddick (the name is the source of non-stop amusement for Max).

So far, before the hurricane Earl arrival, the weather is great and the water is warm. Plenty of swimming, biking (Leon circled and criss-crossed the island and Dad managed to brave the sandy road once too), fishing (yes, fishing!) and crabbing (oh, yeah, the best crabs ever, including what we had in Maryland).

Leon's friend Matt is around this week too (their house is also on the pond, but the next cove over), so Leon went there by the boat and by the bike a couple of times.

See some selected pictures here.