Simply Summer Waning

Labor Day on Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester.

The "unofficial" end of summer.

Time for one more play in the sand.

Time for one more game of beach football.

Time for one more walk in the waves, ...

or maybe one more boat ride.

Time for one more island excursion.

Time for one more (okay, four more) buckets of water.

Time for one more excavation and fort building project.

Looks like two of them found time for one more "mug up"!

Simply Summer Waning

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Simply Summer Fading Away

Early evening on Labor Day, we travelled down to Good Harbor. It had been a great weekend and we thought we could use "one more walk" on the beach before the unofficial end of summer.

We weren't alone. For a summer that seemed to start and stop many times this year, there were quite a few people still hanging out at the beach, trying to catch that last little bit of summer.

The waves weren't great that evening, although a few were out trying to catch them.

It was dead low tide, which allowed us to walk all the way to Salt Island. A number of people were up on the island taking in the vistas. Here's a look towards the twin lights from the island side.

The end of summer. The end of the day. A boat at rest off the island.

A wide shot as the sun starts to set and the day fades away.

Here's a few "summer colors" caught on this last day of summer. They'll soon be replaced by the autumn ones.

One last look as we leave for the evening.

Simply Summer....Fading Away.

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