My View of Life on the Dock
Amazing how much was accomplished in just Five days. There is still more work to be done, such as replace the iron railings in the center structure, and secure some more of the under carriage.
My thanks to the DPW work crew that put up with me for the past week, taking photos and just getting in their way.
On one of my walks I came across a Keeshond dog, I had to take a photo of his face.
More work being performed on the under carriage, replacing many old boards, and repalce more than expected railings.
Inspecting scheduled, for later this week, and public access set for sometime next week.
Also see Kim’s post on same subject.
Not yet fully functional with still a few wobbly, rotted, and missing boards, but any day now the footbridge will be ready for summer fun. I walked along the marsh edge early this morning and saw a single Great Egret, cormorants, gulls, geese, ducks, robins, and a Mourning Dove. I put my feet in the water and it was numbingly cold, but that didn’t prevent a half dozen paddle boarders from enjoying the foggy frigid surf.
Is this the portion of the old foot bridge washed up in the marsh?
The Gloucester DPW gang lead by Phil, looks like they are on target to get this ICON completed.
Charlie Nicastro maintains the Number One Rated Beach in Massachusetts, he has been doing this for Thirty-One Years.
GloucesterCast 4/29/13 With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Alicia DeWolfe
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Topics Include:
9:42 Good Harbor Beach Footbridge Poll
13:00 Mayor Kirk
18:30 Coffee Roll Or Cannoli
20.25 Styrofoam Cups vs Paper Cups
26:06 Cotton Is For Suckers
27:20 Cross Fit Cape Ann
29:15 Muffy White
32:12 Manscaping
35:15 Joey’s Use Of Female Hygiene Products
35:53 Manly Scented Sunscreen
40:27 Laurie Lufkin Click Marketing
42:10 Alicia On Social Media
46:00 Brianmoc
47:30 The Idea Behind GMG
56:30 19 Again
58:00 LMGTFY
If you only listen to one of our podcasts let this be the one. I had so much crazy fun with Alicia.
Here are some memorable quotes from our discussion-
“Should I brace myself? Should I put my seatbelt on?”
“Powder fresh in my nether regions”
“Cotton Is For Suckers”
“Picture late 70’s early 80’s porn”
“Need a machete down there to get to the good stuff”
GloucesterCast With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Mayor Carolyn Kirk Taped 4/28/13
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Topics Include: Kim Smith, What Brought Carolyn Kirk To Gloucester, Bill Kirk- Playa, Steve Winslow, Grant Writing, Area Mayor Group Meetings, Gloucester School Infrastructure, Handling Criticism, Gloucester Times Comment Section, Good Harbor Beach Footbridge, Allocating City Resources, Thanks For This Place
GloucesterCast Podcast Taped 4/25/13 With Host Joey Ciaramitaro and Guest Kim Smith
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Topics Include:
Spring, Planting, Mayor’s Poll On Good Harbor Beach Footbridge, Kim’s Black Swallowtail Butterfly Movie, Community Milkweed Planting Project, Kim’s Prius, Paul Morrison and Coyotes, Duckworth’s Bistrot, Craig Kimberley’s Bikini Speedo Dodgeball Premiere at The farm Bar and Grille, Feeling Like Your Live On Vacation In Gloucester
Heading down to take pictures and came face to face with this Coyote back in 2008-
Mayor Kirk is asking for community feedback-
Hi Joey,
We have a bit of a dilemma regarding the Good Harbor Beach footbridge.
The estimate we have for repairs is $65,000. This is basically a temporary fix and carries the risk of being washed away during the next big storms. Also, the Conservation Commission is throwing down the gauntlet on any more temporary fixes.
An alternative would be to have the broken section be replaced with an aluminum boat ramp-like structure. It would have a synthetic decking, four feet wide with railings, and hook in on just the ends (no pilings necessary). Total cost of this fix is $20,000, the ramp would be made here in Gloucester by a Gloucester company, and could be finished within 3 weeks. It could be removed in the event of a hurricane as well.
So I gotta ask GMG readers, which would you rather?
New England Charm? ($65,000 wooden temporary repair)
Or
Yankee Ingenuity? ($20,000 aluminum repair on broken section, rest would remain wood).
Your readers probably photograph / paint this view more than most so we thought we’d start here to gather feedback.
There wasn’t enough wind to get this big kite flying high, but fun to watch.
On the March 30th podcast with Paul Morrison and Paulie Walnuts I set the over/under on when I thought the Good harbor Beach Footbridge would be repaired at the third Saturday of May. Haven’t seen any work on it yet.
Hope I’m not too far off on the prediction because as of today it looks like the OVER is the better bet.
We will see.
Good Harbor Beach – Enjoying an early sunning at Good Harbor Beach today.
Grandparents, mother and Children from Melrose, while Dad was working.
Good Morning Gloucester 