Blast From The Past

Blog reader, Rich Sullivan, sent me a picture to post. It's a shot of Eddie O'Brien on a mooring ball after the No Name Storm of 1991-


More old pictures. Matt Kniskern sent me pictures of his mother, Eugenie Stackpole heading in on the family's bay scallop boat. Notice they placed the scallops in burlap bags back then.



Matt also sent me pictures of a huge turtle a dragger brought into Nantucket sometime in the 1960's. His father, Frank Kniskern, took these pictures. I think Tobey Lesk is in one of the shots.

Snowy Waterfront

We received several inches of snow today. I went down to the docks to have a look-

Cold!

It was cold and snowy out there scalloping today. The temperature barely made it to 30 degrees. I grabbed a few shots of the guys working-





And a short video clip-

Low Tide!!!

We've been experiencing extreme low tides this week. I went down to a very cold and windy waterfront today and grabbed a few shots.

From Jetties Beach looking NE towards the mouth of the harbor-


The harbor side of Brant Point-


Hulbert Ave looking west. Note the exposed eel grass beds-



The rock at Hulbert Ave-


Looking back towards First Point with the Miss China off in the distance-

Iced Up Dragger

One of my waterfront informants alerted me early this morning of a dragger heading through the jetties on a slow bell. She was heavily iced up and barely making way. She probably spent the night steaming up from down around Nantucket Shoals having a rough trip no doubt. Her name is Voyager and she's home ported in New Beige. Here are some pictures of her I grabbed soon after she arrived at Straight Wharf-






CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THE DANGERS OF ICE BUILD-UP ON A FISHING BOAT

Late this afternoon, this dragger was leaving the harbor-

Icy Waterfront

The harbor started to freeze last night. Just a little slushy ice around the edges. It won't last long as the temp is supposed to rise into the fifties later this week.

I grabbed some shots while I was lurking around the Monomoy area of the waterfront this afternoon.

New Fishing & Boating Site

It's still in beta but stop by and check it out and join if you'd like.

CLICK HERE

Waterfront Projects

There are a couple of ongoing projects down at the waterfront. One is the rebuilding of the end of Old North Wharf and the other is the dredging projects at the White Elephant and Great Harbor Yacht Club. Both projects are progressing smoothly.

The dredge barge has moved over to in front of GHYC now and has started to dredge-


Work at Old North Wharf-



Here's a short video clip I grabbed today of the work being done at Old North Wharf by the AGM crew-

And finally, here's a picture of the windmill and bank of solar panels on Esther's Island-

Hungry Gull

I had a visitor on my scallop boat yesterday morning. A hungry gull. He landed on my bow rail but then moved into the stern with me where I hand fed him nubs. Never a dull moment out there on the water.

White Elephant Dredging Project

The dredging project at the White Elephant/Children's Beach area is well underway. A deep pit was dug up on Children's Beach to accept the spoils. I'm thinking it will eventually be covered up with clean sand. After dredging the White Elephant/Children's Beach area, the dredge will move over to in front of the new Great Harbor Yacht Club at the end of Washington Street to start dredging there.

Here are a few pictures I took this morning of the dredge being used and the location of the dredged material which is being pumped up on Children's Beach-

Hawk & Scenes From Monomoy

The other day, I spotted this hawk down near the cricks eating a duck. It was very small and had yellow legs. It looked like a Red-Tailed Hawk but it was about half the size. Does anyone know what kind of hawk it is?


A flock of Canada Geese seen today off Monomoy-


Today's sunset taken from Monomoy-