zoom images: digiscoping hack (cell phone camera through binoculars)
Voices carry: Piping Plovers on Long Beach One April Morning
Tag: Twin Lights
Walking Good Harbor
Took a nice walk on beautiful Good Harbor Beach before the snow.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
What did we see? pilot whales or dolphins or…? Video from shore #GloucesterMA
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.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Rainbow then spider lighting. video #GloucesterMA Ocean sky summer storm
tonight’s weather Images August 4, 2024.
photos: 2:45-8:45pm
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Gray to Glorious #GloucesterMA waves today
photo caption: 3/10/2024 at about high tide, views from Gloucester and Rockport, Long Beach, Twin Lights. Before the sun came out, the wind was strong enough this morning to move a portapotty off site 100′ down a street. Later, when the sun broke, waves in the surf matched up with a cloud filled blue sky.
porta potty almost put back to construction site. gray sky on left. blue sky hours later
Video clips: Long Beach 2024, March 10
-loading a few-
From the seawall, ricochet wave rolls
From Cape Ann Motor Inn
Photos above: C. Ryan 3/10/2024
March 9, 2024: The gray days are pretty, too. Snow buntings still about.
snow bunting dips- flying down from cottages over rip rap on the beach and back up again
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Storm prep. Long Beach photos Aug. & Sept. #RockportMA
Photo blocks from Long Beach, Rockport & Gloucester, Ma.:
Sept. 14, 2023
When it’s time it’s time. The lifeguard chairs, most of the stairs, and the footbridge are removed every year, and for this season it was at sunrise Sept 14. Rockport DPW is also on top of the storm prep ahead of this weekend’s Tropical Storm warning forecast. They work fast to beat the tides.
september 1,2 / schooner festival
I saw this beach chair and thought perfect chair for Schooner Festival weekend. Imagine chairs on the boulevard printed with custom vessels (iconic racers and current ones). The smoke in the sky again from fires in Canada.
september 8- Black SEa and black clouds then blue Sky, no rain or rainbow
When the sea is black, the photo with the blue sky pockets and the clouds like waves–the last sequentially–was unexpected. Note the scale of the Long Beach cottages vs. clouds.
August 18
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Did you see the sunbeam rainbow? And the red sprites and night lightning on the ocean horizon? Long Beach #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
Gloucester and Rockport views all in one summer day, 8/13/2023: 5 P.M., 5:01 P.M., 5:15, 5:16 (w/Salt Island), 5:16 (turned), 5:58, 6:00 P.M., 6:12, 6;13, 6:25 (sunbeam rainbow shines on Twin Lights), 6:26, 6:27, 6:28, 8:22, 9:30 P.M. Note the ‘big sky’ scale of clouds compared with a car, homes, roofs, Salt Island, etc
photo block 5pm-930pm observed sky: The many weather moods in 4 hours on August 13, 2023. Capped off with red (sprites) and white lightning visible from Long Beach 9-10:00 P.M. The lightning looked a bit like far off fireworks. Red and orange bursts and dashes registered some on cell phone (4 sec video clips below). Bet there were some beautiful night and day photos!
sunbeam rainbow
Rainbow and crepuscular rays- Rainbow streaks shine on Thacher Island.
video snippets below
7 seconds (tough to see: look for red in the middle of the frame at about 4 sec mark. May need to enlarge to full size to bypass the ‘play’ button)
10 seconds- look for dashes in the middle of the frame. White flicker on left was a drone
4 seconds- If this frame were split in 3 vertical strips, about 2 seconds in concentrate on the the left 1/3 to see a pinkish red pulse. Earlier in the evening there were sweeping arcs of diffused lightning
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Did you see the red and white lightning on the ocean horizon tonight? Long Beach #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
August 13, 2023.
Gloucester and Rockport views all in a summer day. Photo block 5pm-930pm observed sky: The many weather moods in just 4 hours. Capped off with red (sprites) and white lightning visible from Long Beach 9-10:00 P.M. The lightning looked a bit like far off fireworks. Red and orange bursts and dashes registered some on cell phone (4 sec video clips below). Bet there were some beautiful photos tonight!
8/13/2023: 5 P.M., 5:01 P.M., 5:15, 5:16, 5:58, 6:00 P.M., 6:12, 6;13, 6:25 (rainbow), 6:26, 6:27, 6:28, 8:22, 9:30 P.M. Note the big sky scale of clouds compared with a car, homes, roofs, Salt Island, etc
sunbeam rainbow
Rainbow and crepuscular rays- Rainbow streaks shine on Thacher Island.
video snippets below
7 seconds (tough to see: look for red in the middle of the frame at about 4 sec mark. May need to enlarge to full size to bypass the ‘play’ button)
10 seconds- look for dashes in the middle of the frame. White flicker on left was a drone
4 seconds- If this frame were split in 3 vertical strips, about 2 seconds in concentrate on the the left 1/3 to see a pinkish red pulse. Earlier in the evening there were sweeping arcs of diffused lightning that .
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Sunrise Smoke sky. Flags for the 4th. Long Beach
photos: C. Ryan. Sunrise views from Gloucester looking out to Twin Lights and from Long Beach to the festive cottages ready for the 4th of July weekend. Below today’s for comparison: Sun rise Smoke Sky Last month. June 7, 2023.
Sun rise Smoke Sky Last month. June 7, 2023
little more yellow that morning. July 2, 2023 fog was in the mix.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Thatcher’s Island from Good Harbor Beach
On Wednesday it was windy and chilly. On Tuesday I actually went swimming. Decided to go over to Good Harbor Beach to walk. The wind was blowing really hard. The ocean was so blue. No matter what the weather is in Gloucester the views never disappoint.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Storm at sunrise was 50° Surf & Wind. 3 hr to Next High Tide #GloucesterMA
Jingle Bell Storm rise sunrise photos Dec. 23, 2022, about 3 hours before the next high tide: Power is on at Long Beach; Creek level at Good Harbor Beach footbridge; Salty Salt Island; Twin Lights, Thacher Island – sunrise spray and waves; Back Shore
8 AM No power outages reported on Cape Ann – 60,000+ in Mass.- http://mema.mapsonline.net/
9AM Update – 1000+ outages in Gloucester
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Good Harbor near sunset
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Good Harbor on a beautiful Saturday
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Gloucester Smiles – 1996
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
beauty of fog unfolding – a Magic Realism morning on good Harbor Beach, Long Beach, Twin Lights
fleeting and atmospheric low tide vistas photos: c. ryan, 7/17/2022
Good Harbor Beach | Long Beach
Thinking about 19th and 20th century painters and printmakers including Ben Shahn, Laura Knight, Peter Hurd, George Tooker, Caspar David Friedrich, Eric Ravilious, Hopper, Morandi, others
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
rainbow after the storm – Twin Lights Thacher Island
May 28, 2022. View to Thacher Island , rainbow across the sea
Animation
Faint double rainbow
Ocean fog, storm clouds passing, then blue skies
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Criss Cross Milk Island Criss Cross to Twin: Watch Out for Right whales feeding here again! between Long Beach and Good Harbor Beach #RockportMA #GloucesterMA
Spring time in Gloucester! Right whales visible from the shore May 5 and May 6, 2022. Not as close as 2018, but we could still hear the blows!
video snippets (3.5 min)
Donna Ardizzoni posted about the (humpback) whales off Magnolia last week.
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Good Morning Sunrise from Long Beach and Good Harbor Beach
April 3, 2022 – sunrise behind Milk Island, views from Long Beach, and Good Harbor
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
sugared dune grass and ice blasted following Friday’s winter storm #GloucesterMA
Feb. 5, 2022 Long Beach (Rockport and Gloucester, MA.) snapshots about 8am.
How much snow?
Stone and metal surfaces are ice blasted with a fresh snow dusting 1/2″ – 2″ between Long Beach and Good Harbor Beach. By daylight, the coastal rocky shoreline between the beaches would normally reveal a highway of wildlife tracks and drama. There were none today which means the rocks are thick slick coated. Instead it’s the natural surfaces- -grass, sand, brush– worn and riveted. When they’re not icy, wildlife favor those bare surfaces.
View out the windows- glazing is ice blasted
ice, ice railing | pics show metal, glass and stone vs. grass, sand, etc to give an idea of what’s out there
Want to identify local wildlife from winter tracks in the snow?
Wonderful children’s picture book
Let’s Go! Animal Tracks in the Snow! by Diane Polley with illustration by Marion Hall
and pocket guide by http://www.masswildlife.org
Spread The GMG Love By Sharing With These Buttons:
Everything sunrises must converge: Twin Lights Thacher Island. Winter views from Long Beach.
photos: c. ryan. December 2021
Good Morning Gloucester 