Pigeon Cove

Just above Rockport is Pigeon Cove. Much of the granite of early New England was quarried here. Preserved now as a state park, it's a rocky, wild area at the very edge of the Atlantic whose deep quarrys are now filled with fresh water.

Town of Rockport

Rockport, MA, on little Cape Ann, is an hour northeast of Boston. It becomes a nice tourist trap in the summer, but a year round fishing town for the working folk.

It's a little early for the lobster season, otherwise all the lines you see would be hanging onto a lobster trap in the cold, deep blue. But try a fish caught from these boats just two hours prior, and you'll taste heaven.

Fishing boats move with the tide. This afternoon is very low tide.