I got lost on my walk this morning. I am directionally challenged, so normally walk one of 3 established routes. I had taken the longer walking route up Mt. Pleasant Ave to Moreland to Atlantic to Brace Cove and up St. Louis to Farrington and straight back Eastern Point to East Main and up Rocky Neck Ave. This time I turned up High Popples, a route I have taken with walking buddy artist, Caroline Kwas, who is not directionally challenged, and has a GPS. When I got to Grapevine, I followed my “sense of direction”, turned left and continued walking. By this time I was tired and wasn’t seeing anything familiar. I spotted a couple in their front yard and went up to them and asked where I was. They laughed and said: “You’re in Gloucester, Mass!” It was Ed and Jean Pasquina, and Jean immediately offered to give me a ride back to Rocky Neck, which I gratefully accepted. Thanks Jean, you get the Good Morning Gloucester angel of the day award.
The next angel is Tom Bernie of East Gloucester. Tom, a longtime pilot, has wings, and gave me my wings when he took me up yesterday in his very cool two-seater open cockpit experimental, homemade in his basement and attic, bright red plane. It was without a doubt the adventure of this summer. I got to take 400+ photos of the coastline from Hampton to Cape Ann, and got many cool shots of familiar places from a very unique perspective. I’ll be sharing some of them with you over the next couple of days. This series is Tom preparing the plane for takeoff, me looking like a cool aviator chick, the plane’s shadow on the beach. Can you identify the others?
Thanks Tom for a really great experience and view of Cape Ann.
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is that the houseboat that lives by the highway, at Little River?
Yes, it is. I have always wanted to photograph that houseboat, but am always flying by it at 50 mph on the highway, so it was great to be able to fly over it at 75 mph and finally get a really cool perspective shot of it.
“experimental”? eeek. Now that’s cool! cant wait to see more pictures
stunning and ‘new’ looking photos of Cape Ann
What nice angels you have. The plane flight must have been awesome. You need to publish them all. I know them all except the beach fencing one, maybe over on Coffin Beach or somewhere along there.
I don’t actually know where that was – somewhere around Salisbury or Seabrook, I think. We took off from Hampton and being directionally challenged as I am, I often couldn’t tell where we were until we got to Newburyport.
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So glad you got to go on your flying adventure! Great pics, can’t wait to see more. I recognize Stage Fort Park and the Annisquam Houseboat, is the other one Crane Castle? So cool!!
Right Jenn, and the Crane’s Estate approach was amazing! We were flying right at it seemingly at our level since it is set high on a hill, and had just banked to the left when I got that shot.
love the lost story and your photos are amazing
Very Cool EJ. I love it. Dona
Looks like you had one hell of an adventure!
Wowzers! So cool. Love the photos and how bout that good egg award!
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I think I see another Kickstarter Project for a coffee table book entitled Aerial Views from Hampton to Cape Ann.
Good work EJ! What a treat if your stomach can handle it…Last time I tried to do that I got very dizzy. It’s best to look down, not try loop-dee-doos and dart in between clouds for “cloud photography”…I find helicopters are easier, take the door off, and lean out as you are SECURELY strapped in….
Weird!!!! ..synchronicity again…as I’m writing this, a helicopter just flew by my window and is flying back and forth with a video rig secured underneath, taping Gloucester Harbor, the Railways, the Fort, East Gloucester, Rocky Neck, etc…it is very loud, but from the looks of it, they got great long sweeping shots and close-ups as they were very close to the land and sea and then shot up and around…
Thanks Kathy. That was the Wicked Tuna film crew in that helicopter getting footage of Hard Merchandise as it went back out. There were buzzing all over down here on Rocky Neck this morning – in the air as well as the film crew on the ground.
Cool photos. Birdseye views are fun. Looking forward to seeing more. A book is a good idea.
Too cool!