October 11

This morning we awoke early to call our grandson, Jacob, as he was headed to school. It is his seventh birthday today and we sang the birthday song over the phone. Later I looked out the window and saw a boat obviously aground at the head of the inlet. It was a large fishing trawler. I got the radio on and heard someone calling the Coast Guard station here in Barnegat and saying that the boat was about to roll over. It did roll over as we watched. The two people on board went into the water and were taken on board by a small fishing boat that had been trolling the waters nearby. The boat is still there guarded by the Coasties and TowboatUS. It should be an interesting project to get it back afloat as it was near high tide when it rolled.