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A boat full of water skiers rides around Beebe Cove in Noank Friday, July 3, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Riding the wake

Daisy Rios, right, and her cousin, Shawn Diaz, 11, both of Norwich, relax along the shore Friday, July 3, 2020, at UConn Avery Point in Groton. Rios is a student at UConn Avery Point and thought it was a good day to spend time by the water and knew the campus would be a good place to relax. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Relaxing at Avery Point

A crowd fishes from the fishing pier at Fort Trumbull State Park in New London Friday, July 3, 2020 as the Coast Guard barque Eagle returns to the adjacent pier. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Fishing at Fort Trumbull

Aquinnah Kyne, 8, left, and Avery Piragis, 9, sail their Optimist sailboat during their beginner sailing lesson Thursday, July 2, 2020, during the Thames Yacht Club Youth Sailing program at the club located in New London. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

Young boaters try their hands at sailing in New London

Beachgoers crowd the sands Thursday, July 2, 2020, at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

It's beach weather in southeastern Connecticut

Participants in the summer sailing camp at Mystic Seaport Museum take to the Mystic River on Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Dyer Dhow dinghy sailboats. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Campers get out on the water in Mystic

A common tern emerges with a meal Thursday, July 2, 2020, after a dive into the waters just off Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

In Waterford there is a season, tern tern tern

Golf course superintendent Vin Sylvester counts the purple martin chicks and eggs in one of the nesting gourds for his wife, Hermione, to record in a notebook Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at the Pequot Golf Club in Stonington. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

It's for the birdies at Stonington golf course

Joe Boeckel holds hands with his daughter AvaLynn, 12, as she learns to skateboard Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at the Groton Skatepark in Sutton Park. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Getting a helping hand in Groton

Siblings Jack Nemergut, 14, left, and Sam, 16, visiting family from New Jersey, use bait to look for crabs Tuesday, June 30, 2020, as it rains along Crescent Beach in Niantic. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Siblings in the rain — hunting for crabs, that is — in East Lyme

A group of friends, from left, Ryan Novick, C.J. Rufsnider, Liza Derry, Summer Antonino and Ava Lombardo, heads home from McCook Park in Niantic on Tuesday, June 30, 2020, after giving up on a day at the beach. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Rained out at the beach in East Lyme

Luke Hindle, an employee of the New London City Center District, waters the hanging baskets of petunias along Bank Street in New London Monday, June 29, 2020. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Keeping Bank Street colorful

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