There's been plenty of whale action visible from the beaches, and it's been a stellar week for inshore and offshore fishing, with fluke, striped bass, porgy galore, and tuna farther out.

A report on East Hampton's fall sports seasons, all now in full swing in football, girls swimming, girls tennis, boys cross-country, field hockey, and boys volleyball.

Liam Knight, who recently competed with the U.S. team in the world lifesaving championships in Australia, said in an email this week that “it was amazing to see lifesaving as a sport in which people from all over the world engage.”

Last winter Bryan Wish, the coach of the Peconic Hockey Foundation’s U-12 hockey team, said he intended to enter a freshman team in Suffolk County’s high school hockey league come the fall, and, indeed, that has come to pass.

“It wasn’t a beautiful game,” Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, said on leaving the field after last Thursday’s 2-0 loss — the first of the league season for the Bonackers — to Half Hollow Hills West.