KYLER RITTER shoots a water canon at the beach at Barrett’s Park. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register TIM SPERBER and his daughter, Clara, from Westborough, Mass, build a sand castle at Barrett’s Park on August 1. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register BECKY TAYLOR of Concord, N.H. takes a nap while daughter Katherine holds down the fort, or towel. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register ALEX SZEIELEWSKI, foreground, and friend Brianna Russo catch some sun at the park on August 1. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register DUTCHESS, left, wades with her mom and dad, Cherica and Michael Grinder of Hagarstown, Md., at the beach at Barrett’s Park. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register THE SWING is often in use at Barrett’s Park on a summer day. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register THE SPERBER FAMILY, Emily and Tim and daughters Eleanor, in green, and Clara, in pink were here from Westborough, Mass. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register ELEANOR SPERBER finds some cool rocks at Barrett’s Park on August 1. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register A GROUP of plein air painters receives some instruction in watercolors from Barrett’s Park on August 1. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register TONY VAN HASSELT, of East Boothbay, led a workshop on watercolor painting at Barrett’s Park on August 1. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register ELLIOT the shi tzu cools off in the ocean at Barrett’s Park. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register KYLEN RITTER and his grandmother, Peggy Traquair Carlson, from Massachusetts, are in Boothbay Harbor visiting family. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register A LITTLE GIRL and her red pail made for a good photo op on the beach at Barrett’s Park on August 1. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register KATHERINE TAYLOR, 11 months old, looking pretty in her pink bonnet. SUZI THAYER/Boothbay Register