Community Photos 2/16/13

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1. The rock is located at Eastern Point near the lighthouse. Park at the light house parking lot and walk through the marshy area of the Audubon sanctuary, towards the Atlantic. When you get to the water, look back towards the lighthouse and you will see Mother Ann.

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   1. Thanks so much! Sounds easy enough to find. I’ll let you know!

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2. As I recall, it’s located at the end of Eastern Point to the left of the lighthouse as you’re looking out to sea…. of course, you have to climb over lots of rocks and be viewing it from the correct angle to make it out! Caveat: As a lawyer friend of mine is fond of saying: I reserve the right to be wrong!

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3. Mother Ann is a rock formation located near the Eastern Point Lighthouse in Gloucester, Massachusetts. When viewed at the correct angle, the formation appears to be the silhouette of a reclining Puritan woman. It is also believed locally that the formation represents the royal mother of King Charles I, Anne of Denmark, after whom Cape Ann is named.
   The formation may have been named by Captain William Thompson of Salem in 1891, and has since been compared to New Hampshire’s Old Man in the Mountain. A nearby whistling buoy is known as “Mother Ann’s Cow”. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Ann_(rock_formation)

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   1. Wow! It made it to Wikipedia! Awesome!

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4. Mother Ann Rock is next to Eastern Point Lighthouse. She’s alive and well. Here she is on Oct. 2012d after a big storm. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenbo/8478932968/in/photostream/lightbox/

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   1. Perfect shot shot Len!

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      1. Thanks Kim. This is the other shots the same day as the Mother Ann photo.
         
         https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/eastern-point-wave-from-own-burgess/

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   2. WOW! That’s a great shot! Thanks so much, now I’m going to go “find” it !!!

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5. Yep – the others have it..Used to climb around those rocks when I was a kid…Had to be convinced I was looking at a profile of someone…As I came into my teenage years – the profile became more clear. Last time I checked it out a couple of years ago, it was still the profile I remember from my teenage years.
   Note: you do have to move around a bit to catch the correct angle – but it’s lovely over there – so worth the clamber…

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   1. When the weather is right, I’m going to trek out there!

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6. Eastern Point near the lighthouse.

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7. Thanks so much everyone! Now I’m going to trek out there and find it. It’s awesome!!!

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