A tugboat pushes a double-hulled oil barge through the canal. I can't tell if the tug is part of the barge or just fits snugly into it. That particular Bouchard barge (number 225) is capable of carrying 110,000 barrels of oil.
A second tug follows behind - I guess it is a back-up in case the first tug has a problem. It wouldn't be good to have a loose barge full of oil hit the rocks.
View across the canal toward the town of Sandwich at the east end of the canal.
This is the jetty adjacent to Scusset Beach that protects and defines the canal entrance where it joins Cape Cod Bay.
In case you missed the scale of the jetty's granite boulders, the black speck is my cell phone for perspective. These are definitely BIG ROCKS. It is great exercise to walk out the jetty on them - good balance and agility training for an old man - the consequences of a misstep help me to clearly focus on the task.
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