IN LIKE A LION . . . OPSAIL 2012 Connecticut started out with a bang on July 6, 2012 as Navy hovercraft left the USS Carter Hall to land at Hole-in-the-Wall beach in Niantic, Connecticut, my second home town (my family's been there every summer since I was 10). The next day I joined the mayor of Groton and a few others aboard the schooner Tyrone, owned by Matthew and Cynthia Sutphin, for the Parade of Sail as the tall ships made their way from Niantic to Fort Trumbull in New London. Festivities continued through Monday as the last tall ship, the beautiful Brazilian Cisne Branco headed back home. All photos © Marianne A. Campolongo. (Please note that unless you have purchased a license to use a photo, posting it or a screenshot even with my copyright watermark is a violation of copyright law, but sharing a link to this page with your friends is encouraged.) You can find framed prints and greeting cards with many of these images on my Fine Art America site at http://marianne-campolongo.artistwebsites.com/