My View of Life on the Dock
August 14, 2024. 6pm.
Images: Exciting sightings! Shoreside views looking in the direction of Milk Island and Twin Lights from Long Beach neighborhood. Feeding and fast maneuvers between Twin Lights and Good Harbor Beach with the extended feeding seen in the images closest in line to Milk.
Out with the old exterior and in with the new! The Old Nugent Farm condominiums are getting some love in the summer of 2024. There are 70+ (72?) condos and SPS was contracted to take care of each one. The exterior components to be demoed and replaced are all the biggies: Roofs (some with skylights). Siding. Windows. Deck. Chimney repointing. The completion date is expected before the summer of 2025.
A unique construction staging area was tucked away to manage the scale of this project. Besides deliveries and garages, a mini mockup condo model was constructed to test the materials in the field, and problem solve optimum execution and training (such as the flashing performance).
The original great design of the Old Nugent Farm condos, which deferred to nature, will remain. They will be green again. Do you remember before there were condos?
Utility work on Thatcher. View back to Old Nugent Farm condos on the right and Good Harbor Beach parking lot sign on the left.
Gloucester, Mass. July 3, 2024.
After a lull in construction on the Good Harbor Beach Inn site — reflecting 3 months fine-tuning the engineering plans just so– the foundation digging for the anchor lobby building has commenced for this scenic property across from Salt Island.
The Martignetti family who purchased Good Harbor Beach Inn a couple of years ago are diehard Gloucester fans. Mark Martignetti who is directing the building is overjoyed to be back at it.
“I’m managing the building for a family venture. We have always, always loved Gloucester! Part of growing up North of Boston is coming to Gloucester…to Good Harbor Beach, right? We had talked about the business for years and years. Now we are thrilled to own it. We can’t wait to open and be part of the community!”
Mark Martignetti. Good Harbor Beach Inn, July 2024
As reported with the demo here, the configuration of the Inn will remain roughly the same featuring a main lobby building with the guest room out buildings clustered on the hill. One local amenity that will not return is the rustic snack window takeout which was not grandfathered into the renovation. Stay tuned: A family familiar with the food & beverage and hospitality industry will no doubt have some attentive and creative ideas to satisfy guests.
The construction site will get busier now. Crews are lined up and final construction ETA may be 9 months out.
Drawings illustrating the final project will be public over the next couple of weeks.
July 1, 2024
April 1
March 18
2019 here
On Friday it was very gray and misty at Good Harbor Beach. Saw one surfer out on the waves.
Up and surfing
Wipe out
photos: April 6, 2024. quahog wrack line, 9 piping plovers, savannah sparrow
With the recent weather, Good Harbor on Friday was not like a summer day. As always, the beach looked beautiful.
morning photos: cloud drama starting 8:45 AM on March 18, 2024 in Gloucester, Mass.
View from Thatcher Road–tapers to the right
as if it were a daylight aurora in the bottom layers
The marshes work wonders during extreme storms
photos January 13, 2024, two hours after high tide: At the back of Good Harbor Beach over to Cape Hedge (roughly Thatcher Road between Stop & Shop, Good Harbor Beach, Long Beach, and Cape Hedge). Streets were impassable for about two hours–flooded by feet of water not inches. Barriers, DPW crews, utility and emergency crews are repairing, clearing, and pushing cars. The last time the floods breached the berm at Cape Hedge was the March 2012 storms. I was away for the prior flooding this week, and have not seen other neighborhoods today.
Courtesy photos shared with GMG: Good Harbor Beach; Greasy Pole
photos: Gearing up for 2024 while enjoying the last winter sunrises of 2023 (fresh squeezed Dec. 23 & basking Dec 31, 2023)
photos: 12/5/2023 first winter snow- a dusting with fairy hail, split sky, brief rain
photos: Fall vistas and Thanksgiving decorations in Gloucester, Mass., November 2023.
Rick and I took a walk on Good Harbor Beach on Sunday. It was beautiful and many people took advantage of a nice Sunday.
Gloucester, Mass. July 4, 2023. Over Under on the weather is unclear but one thing is certain. DPW is there or already been there! photos – Rogers, Stacy Boulevard/Western Ave, Good Harbor Beach.
So long green. Good Harbor Beach ticket booth retired.
Easter morning Rockport, Gloucester 4/9/2023
Feb. 10, 2023- a dreamy magic realism morning with several white rainbows at sunrise, maybe still. This one spanned the marsh, Old Nugent, Thacher Road more than an hour after sunrise. Hope to see your photos!
20 minutes. Jan. 29, 2023. Good Harbor Beach / Brier Neck. Long Beach. Gloucester & Rockport, MA.
12 snapshots. Pinch and zoom or double click for full size.
Good Morning Gloucester 