Tag: gulls

Weekly Photo Challenge: Gloucester on Cape Ann

The legendary whaling port that produced the toughest sailors on earth ... not the huge fleet it once was, but still alive in the 21st century. Related articles Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea (dailypost.wordpress.com) Weekly Photo Challenge: One Shot, Two Ways (windagainstcurrent.com) First to the New World? Pre-Viking find on Faroes renews talk about St. Brendan discovering … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Gloucester on Cape Ann

Weekly Photo Challenge: The Cold, Grey North Atlantic

The sky is rosy with the coming sunrise. The air is full of the smell of salt. Sand crunches under your sandals. Listen to the call of seagulls and the whoosh of the waves breaking against the shore. Flights of plovers and terns flutter by. You'll never mistake this for the Pacific. It's colder. Darker. Don't … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: The Cold, Grey North Atlantic

Weekly Photo Challenge: Rockport Harbor, Cape Ann, Massachusetts

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Early Birds

Summer is ending. On the beach at dawn. It was dark when I got there and I thought I'd be alone. I was wrong. Not only was I accompanied by hundreds of plovers and gulls, but there are a surprising number of people on the pre-dawn beach. Walkers and runners, strollers, bird watchers ... and … Continue reading Early Birds