Gloucester At Dawn- Thatcher Island 4:45AM 7/31/09

Some people will never take a picture like this in their lifetime.  Getting up at 3:45AM  seven days a week  isn’t much fun but I feel pretty blessed to be able to experience scenes like this.

Gloucester At Dawn- Thatcher Island Taken From Long Beach
Gloucester At Dawn- Thatcher Island Taken From Long Beach
click the picture for the Gloucester At Dawn Slide Show
click the picture for the Gloucester At Dawn Slide Show

Gloucester At Dawn, Corner Of Middle and Pleasant Street

I wonder what the economic climate was like when this building was built.   Buildings like this just aren’t constructed regularly in our day, I guess because it is cost prohibitive.  Do you think it came down to economics or just a sense of pride when the people who built this building designed and had it built?

Gloucester At Dawn- George’s Coffee Shop 4:50AM 7/29/09

If you click on the picture and select “all sizes” you can see the full sized version.  To me it looks like a scene from a movie.

Gloucester At Dawn- George’s Coffee Shop 4:50AM 7/29/09

Gloucester At Dawn- Pleasant Street 7/26/09 4:45AM

I messed around with this picture to give it a grittier feel.  The original below-


Gloucester At Dawn- Pleasant Street 7/26/09 4:45AM

Gloucester At Dawn- Bass Rocks Golf Course 7/23/09 4:50AM


Gloucester At Dawn- Good Harbor Beach 7/15/09 4:45AM

Glorious Gloucester In The Morning


Sail Gloucester 09- The American Eagle 4:40AM 7/6/09

Sail Gloucester American Eagle
Sail Gloucester American Eagle

Gloucester At Dawn Spirit Of Massachusetts 7/6/09 4:45AM

I went down to the GMHC this morning to take some pics for you.  Some of the Spirit of Massachusetts and the American Eagle.  We used to unload the American Eagle when it was a dragger owned by Joe Piscatello.  I can’t tell you how much whiting we unloaded from that boat in the early eighties.  They did an unbelievable transformation to turn it into a schooner.

American Eagle in town for SailGloucester
American Eagle in town for SailGloucester
American Eagle
American Eagle

Gloucester At Dawn-4:45AM 6/26/09 Paint Factory and Herring Seine

Gloucester At Dawn-4:45AM 6/26/09 Paint Factory and Herring Seine, originally uploaded by captjoe06.

Gloucester At Dawn, Paint Factory Herring Seine
Gloucester At Dawn, Paint Factory Herring Seine

Gloucester At Dawn-4:50AM 6/23/09 Harbor Cove

Junior Seine Boat Crews Prepare For Seine Boat Practice

Video to come-


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Gloucester At Dawn- 4:50AM 6/23/09 Saint Peter’s Club

This morning I got some video of the seine boat crews getting ready to practice for the races.  Talk about lousy conditions to have to train in.  The energy is going to be off the charts when we finally get some nice weather.

Gloucester At Dawn, 4:45AM Good Harbor Beach 6/09/09

Here are the final pics from that glorious morning last week

How many of you get up in time to enjoy sunrises like this?
A cup of coffee, and this………….
The Last One