Saturday’s fog, showers and clouds broke, making a sunny, breezy midday for one family’s first time at Alna’s Head Tide Dam. The Fairleys were visiting from Massachusetts.

Some members rode inner tubes down the Sheepscot River toward a relative’s home. The rest stayed behind, having fun wading, discussing resident wildlife the family has named and, for sisters Aila, “almost 9,” and Avery, 3, taking turns in an inner tube.

“Off they go,” the girls’ uncle Kevin Fairley said earlier as he gave a final push to one of the inner tubes their river-riding relatives were taking downriver.

Aila and Avery’s mother Jessica Fairley and other family members remarked on the spot as beautiful and nice for spending time in. Atlantic Salmon Federation made over the access area and part of the town-owned dam last year.