Newport: Bay Front Happenings

The sun was shining Mother's Day weekend. Families flocked to Bay Front in Newport to enjoy the sights and sounds of harbor life. Enjoying art galleries, window shopping, eating sweet treats, and a bowl of Mo's famous clam chowder were a few favorite activities for moms and their loved ones. This historic bay front is listed #6 as a "must see" location on tripadivser.com for coast sight-seeing.

A sailor leaves the harbor in the fishing boat Four Forty for an evening expedition. Some boats returning from fishing will dock at Bay Front and sell seafood off their boats, straight from the ocean to the dinner table.

Judy Coghill cleans a halibut caught by a customer on a Tradewinds Charter boat. Full of hopeful fishermen, it left at 6 a.m. and docked at 4 p.m. Saturday, May 12. Nearly everyone caught their limit. Coghill has been filleting fish for over 25 years. She can filet about 110 fish an hour. 

Tourists and locals alike line the pier and watch in amusement at the sea lion residents play, sleep, and scuffle. Sunning themselves on docks that used to be for the fisherman, they are now permanent fixtures for all to see, hear, and smell.