Christine Hochkeppel

Cape Cod

  • New Bedford fisherman Alfred Conde, 61, repairs an 80 by 50 foot section of net aboard 75-foot dragger Lady Patricia docked at MacMillan Pier. The crew's brand new net became all chewed up when it got caught in the mud as they fished for haddock, cod, pollock and sole.
  • Brodie Hemingway, 5, and Max Bachand, 8, pull Evan Hemingway, 7, at First Encounter Beach on Tuesday afternoon. The boys termed the activity {quote}belly boarding.{quote}
  • Minuteman Model Yacht Club member Herb Dreher of Natick takes his model sail boat, {quote}Other Woman{quote} out of Eel Pond after participating in some friendly match races during the The Woods Hole Historical Museum's ninth biennial Woods Hole Model Boat Show.
  • Hannah Daly, 19, and Justin Davis both of Ashland share a towel on a breezy afternoon walk at Chatham Light Beach.
  • Ken Macara of Chatham, crewman on the 48-foot scalloper, Moonraker, performs maintenance on their new rake, putting on a new net and adding chains in Saquatucket Harbor. Macara is shown working through a scallop ring, which lets the undersized scallops pass through and allows for the optimum yield of legal catch.
  • Kate Bassett, 5, of Brewster gets her feet wet at Point of Rocks Beach.
  • Chatham fishermen Andy {quote}L.B.{quote} Tatzel, left, and Kenny Tolley sort through 75 nets in preparation for their 34-hour monkfish and skate fishing trip in a couple weeks. They will travel about 90 miles out from the Chatham fish pier aboard the 44-foot vessel, Dawn T.
  • Bob Perry of South Harwich takes a gander at the yellow perch he pulled up a frozen over Mill Pond with his buddies Bill Trombi of East Harwich, left, and Jerry Kissell of Sandwich. {quote}We call these freshwater haddock,{quote} Perry said.
  • Gray seal kerfuffles are a common occurrence along the Muskeget Island shoreline. Crocker Snow of Ispwich and his family own most of Muskeget Island, which has become the preferred habitat for what researchers estimate to be 3200 gray seals during their breeding and pupping period.
  • First mate Andy Pickrell of Chatham hauls up a tote of lobsters from the 32-foot Brady R. at the Chatham Fish Pier.
  • David Forg of Lexington glides into shore with a pack of kite surfers behind him at Corporation Beach.
  • Carson Schemenaur, 11, of Sandwich back flips off of the Sandwich boardwalk at high tide.
  • Paul Dunbar of Orleans tosses his rake in the air as he walks back from the Rock Harbor flats after digging for razor clams. Dunbar said this was one of the last low tides for a while during daylight hours so he made sure to get out.
  • CAPE COD CANAL -- 060914 -- Passengers in the seating below the deck aboard Viking on a Canal Cruise.
  • FALMOUTH -- 010914 -- A fisherman hauls up his catch near an ice-coated jetty off Surf Drive on Vineyard Sound.
  • Neighbors Kaitlyn Riley, 11, and Emma Itri, 7, both of Bourne scream as they ride the Scrambler at the Barnstable County Fair on opening day at Cape Cod Fairgrounds.
  • Deer Club members Glenn Gavin of West Barnstable and John Lovell of Hyannis teach Damien Chapman, 6, of Centerville how to sniff out bad clams before their 60th annual clambake on Sunday, August 31, 2014.
  • Ronan Laplante, 4, tries to help his mother, Brooke, as she pulls her daughter, Nora, 8 months, and their beach gear in a wagon up the dune returning from a day at Truro's Coast Guard Beach on Wednesday, September 3, 2014.
  • Seafox deck hands Mark {quote}Gilligan{quote} Santos, far right, and Gary Sharron rig one load of 320 total bushels of surf clams to be transferred to a delivery truck amidst a thick fog on Hyannis Harbor.
  • From left, Sandwich residents Ron and Janice Hewins, Becky Milburn with her sons Peter, 7, and Ray, 10, Emily Hunt, 13, Ella Strano, 14, Evelyn Milburn, 12, Sophia Strano, 12, Kelsea McCabe, 13, Ella McCabe, 8, Kim McCabe, Yvonne Hunt and Jen Strano wave and cheer as traffic passes by the Chase Road overpass on Labor Day, Monday, September 1, 2014. Jen Strano said they bid their friendly farewell every year at 11 a.m. {quote}They make our economy go and we want them to come back. It's always good to give them something to do while they're sitting in traffic.{quote}
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