Sag Harbor on the Mooring Ball

Hi there F and F
Well we had a break from doing the blog while staying in Sag Harbor for three days. Our second day in Sag we explored the town, full of little boutiques and restaurants and wonderful organic fresh food catering for the tourists and the Hamptonites. I had done some research in the early morning and saw there was a theatre in town .We booked for Thursday night to see a play called the Five Presidents. Will share about that later.
Being on a mooring ball we decided to take use of the efficient water taxi to take us to and from the boats into the town on all three days bar one when we took Rogers dingy out and went for an exploration in the harbor area. Lots of very large yachts around including several Ferretti boats .Seems they sell new  them in the area, as do Back Cove yachts , the sister Sabre company.
Late afternoon we got picked up by Tony and Blair (our son) and enjoyed Champagne and appetizers at the Da Silva house in Sag Harbor  to celebrate the birth of our first grandson Sebastian.
As weather was dicey we decided to forget the BBQ idea at the house and headed off to Bridgehampton  for  a nice Italian meal. Sebastian was the model baby nt making any fuss despite the noise level and activity in the restaurant.

Thursday morning ,the four of us rented a car from Enterprise , who will collect you and bring you back by the way.
Decided to first explore Shelter Island which involved  taking the car on the ferry boat.
Had a nice drive around there , lovely old homes and very peaceful , certainly no traffic jams on that island! We stopped for coffee in the garden at the lovely old Chequit Inn.
The young girls serving the coffee there were wonderful and gave us their best recommendation for lunch and shops to visit.
We ended up at 1 pm having lunch at Salt restaurant which sits by the water . Scallops and red quinoa was the choice of three of us.I even tried fried asparagus as a starter . We decided to head back over to Southampton.Linda was on a mission to find a new cocktail napkin holder. Also we were able to see some of the lovely homes and the famous privacy Hampton hedges to keep out onlookers .
In fact there are fields of this hedge growing business nearby .
We dropped the car off at the East Hampton airport , then back to the boat before our evening experience of the SH  Bay Theater. Ordered a glass of wine when we got there.
You were allowed to take it into the theater with you. So the Play , Five Presidents It was about the  funeral of Nixon and five presidents including the then current president Clinton ,met in a room prior to the event and there they discussed the good and bad aspects of being President of USA . It was funny and also poignant , showing the humanside of each of the men..