FOB Kathy Downer has a cottage on Long Beach and had asked a number of times why no one on GMG ever puts up photos of Long Beach. I’d never been there until Violet took me there during my intimate island tour. So these photos are for you Kathy and everyone else who visits and loves Long Beach.
E.J. Lefavour
www.khanstudiointernational.com
Good Morning Gloucester 
Isn’t this what they call Pebble Beach on the Rockport end of Long Beach? Very appropriate, I would say.
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Cape Hedge is the Beach next to Long Beach. The beach on the other side of Cape Hedge is Pebble Beach. I remember a few years ago a large whale wash up on Cape Hedge. After they studied it they buried it the parking lot.
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Thanks for the clarification Paul. I didn’t get to Pebble Beach this time. Cool to realize that we were parked on top of a whale!
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Thank you EJ, as always brilliant photos. very kind and thoughtful. next time you have to take photos of gloucester end. we grew up calling that beach Pebble Beach. we also grew up thinking we were in Gloucester! i think there may have been shared responsibilities. kathy
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I heard that Pebble beach is also knows as Henry’s beach.
Who the heck is Henry? And what’s a popple?
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I don’t know who Henry is, but on popples:
In former days — that is to say, once upon a time, there lived in the Land of Gramblamble, Seven Families. They lived by the side of the great Lake Pipple-popple (one of the Seven Families, indeed, lived in the Lake), and on the outskirts of the City of Tosh, which, excepting when it was quite dark, they could see plainly. The names of all these places you have probably heard of, and you have only not to look in your Geography books to find out all about them. (from Edward Lear)
And . . . Popples resemble brightly colored teddy bears or marsupials (but with long tails with pom-poms on the tip), and have pouches on their backs that they can go into and resemble brightly colored balls. (from Wikipedia)
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