February 10th, 2009 by Sean

It may still be February, and the winter not nearly over, but we’re definately getting a reprieve from whats been a long and harsh winter so far.  It was 55 on van’s beach and the landscape resembled something in the Carribean with rock formations being substituted with ice that has been transformed into blow-holes for the blue-green rollers churned up by gusty south winds.

I took a break and watched the waves and talked to Susie Lederle who along with her husband Nick are the only permanent residents of Fishtown.  They’ve lived in their modest fish shanty in the heart of Fishtown’s south bank for over 20 years and always have the best stories.

In Fishtown one of the resident otters was dining on what appeared to be a duck, on an iceflow in the harbor, as construction workers continued in to the sunset on the harbor project, taking advantage of the unseasonable weather.

I caught the sunset on the best deck in Fishtown, with a cold New Castle, wearing a tee shirt, in February.