I was at my grand daughters wedding yesterday. Big crowd from all over. Weather was great which was good as it was and outside wedding on the Mystic River. If any of you saw Mystic Pizza movie, it is about 200 yards behind me in the pictures. I should of taken a picture of and will next week. I ran out of space on the camera from the wedding. While waiting for others to get there I grabbed a few shots of the river boat traffic. This river gets a lot of traffic as they all run up to go to the Mystic Seaport. Being so narrow at this spot you can almost touch them, and often if they get trapped between the 2 bridges and there is a wind, you can touch them as they end up on the docks or against the rocks. I used to scuba dive between these two bridges on the tides and grab lobsters off the bottom. Then you could get up to 5 of them on a permit. Very pretty area, and I grew up about 7 miles from here. This area draws a lot of art people from all over the world in summer and most weekends they have art shows on the streets. Fact, the wedding was in the Mystic Arts Center. It was a big board yard when I was young but they redid it and its really nice.
Ok a few pictures.....
#1 is a day sailer that you can go on all day for $75 bucks with lunch. Really a nice ride all around the Long Island sound. It was just coming back in.
#2 is a steam vessel they run people out on and along the coast line. Much shorter ride and it stays in the protected coastline areas.
#3 This was a dry run on the wedding. The little guy is my great grand son Zeke.
#4 a relative took of myself, my wife Jane, my son George III and his wife Swatie.
#5 Same shot only with my daughter Heidi in it. ON the other side of the river is pretty much how it has always looked only when I was young it was mostly lobster boats or draggers. Most move to Stonington Connecticut now, as it got to expensive to stay here and they wanted the smell of the fishing fleet gone. Fact, where we are standing was the fishing fleet then also. Just below here was and old Connecticut Banjo factory. Building still stands but its empty. The rest of my pictures are on my wifes camera and she is at a horse show with my daughter taking more pictures.
If any of you ever come to Connecticut, the Mystic Seaport is well worth a day of your time if your into old time sailing on the high seas. Whaling ship the Charles W Morgan and all kinds of sailing vessels along with a really interesting old New England fishing village with all that went with it. They are all in period clothes and do it the way it was done then.
Geo
Ok a few pictures.....
#1 is a day sailer that you can go on all day for $75 bucks with lunch. Really a nice ride all around the Long Island sound. It was just coming back in.
#2 is a steam vessel they run people out on and along the coast line. Much shorter ride and it stays in the protected coastline areas.
#3 This was a dry run on the wedding. The little guy is my great grand son Zeke.
#4 a relative took of myself, my wife Jane, my son George III and his wife Swatie.
#5 Same shot only with my daughter Heidi in it. ON the other side of the river is pretty much how it has always looked only when I was young it was mostly lobster boats or draggers. Most move to Stonington Connecticut now, as it got to expensive to stay here and they wanted the smell of the fishing fleet gone. Fact, where we are standing was the fishing fleet then also. Just below here was and old Connecticut Banjo factory. Building still stands but its empty. The rest of my pictures are on my wifes camera and she is at a horse show with my daughter taking more pictures.
If any of you ever come to Connecticut, the Mystic Seaport is well worth a day of your time if your into old time sailing on the high seas. Whaling ship the Charles W Morgan and all kinds of sailing vessels along with a really interesting old New England fishing village with all that went with it. They are all in period clothes and do it the way it was done then.
Geo
