The Capsule Has Landed

I was so surprised the other day when I came by the harbor, to see this rusted steel thing floating in the marsh grass. It looks like an Apollo space capsule! After looking at it for a while I figured out what it was. And then my guess was confirmed when someone came to get it. Know what it is? Right, it is a huge buoy for a heavy-duty mooring. Heavy duty as in usually there are 2 or three fully loaded barges filled with sand tied up to it, waiting for tugboats to take the barges away. There is a facility on the other side of the harbor that receives sand and gravel for making concrete. A small outboard motor boat arrived on the scene, tied a rope to the "capsule" and towed it back to where it belongs.