Beach Reports 9/26/24

Today was a bookend of yesterday, mid 70s, overcast, and only moderately windy.

At mid tide, going down, the beach was mostly sandy. 

Across the Bay. Marine Traffic identifies it as CG Eagle, a Coast Guard training ship with an interesting history:

Eagle commenced its existence in Nazi Germany as Horst Wessel, a ship of the Gorch Fock class. Horst Wessel was an improvement on the original design. She was larger in dimension and her spars were all steel, unlike Gorch Fock's wooden yards. SSS Horst Wessel began life as Schiff ("ship") 508 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, Germany in 1936. . . She was the second ship in the class to be built, following the class namesake Gorch Fock. Rudolf Hess gave the speech at her launch in the presence of Adolf Hitler, and Horst Wessel's mother christened the new ship with a bottle of champagne.

Not a lot of teeth, 13 in all, but I thought I'd showcase this cute little Snaggletooth.

The Ospreys are still around. We're not sure about the Hummingbirds. We didn't see the female at the feeder this morning.

Update: Afternoon Hummingbird sighting.