电影“完美风暴” 海洋舟名地之六： CAPE ANN 美国加拿大纽约波士顿皮划艇

kurtyang04 · 2014-08-27 21:04

马萨诸塞州的格鲁西斯特是美国最早的主要渔港，也是北美最有历史意义最知名的渔港。200年前这里盛产鳕鱼和比目鱼， 估计是世界最有名的渔场之一。经过过度开发，如今产量不但只有以前的十分之一，而且渔民要去比较远的地方捕捞。不过产量趋于稳定。 CAPE ANN 也是温带著名的潜水圣地（无法与热带比），最知名的也比较丰富的生物就是龙虾。

  From Wiki:
Cape Ann is a rocky cape in northeastern Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean. It is located approximately 30 miles northeast of Boston and marks the northern limit of Massachusetts Bay. Cape Ann includes the city of Gloucester, and the towns of Essex, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Rockport. It also includes the easternmost part of Beverly.
Contents
1 Etymology
2 Colony history
3 Local culture
4 Popular culture
5 References
6 External links

Etymology
Cape Ann was first mapped by the explorer John Smith. He had given it the name Cape Tragabigzanda, after his mistress in Constantinople. He had been taken as a prisoner of war and enslaved in the Ottoman Empire. His mistress had fallen in love with him, but Smith later escaped in Russia.
When Smith presented his map to Charles I, he suggested that Charles should feel free to change any of the "barbarous names" (meaning the many Native American place names he had adopted) into English ones. The king made many such changes, but only four survive today. One was Cape Ann, which Charles named in honor of his mother Anne of Denmark.[sup][1][/sup]
Colony history
The English colony at Cape Ann was first founded in 1623. It was the fourth colonizing effort in New England after Popham Colony, Plymouth Colony and Nantasket Beach. Two ships of the Dorchester Company brought 32 in number with John Tylly and Thomas Gardner as overseers of a fishing operation and the plantation, respectively. This colony predated Massachusetts Bay charter and colony. For that reason, members of the colony were referred to as "old planters". The first Great House in New England was built on Cape Ann by the planters. This house was dismantled on the orders of John Endecott, in 1628, and moved to Salem to serve as his "Governor's" house.[sup][2][/sup] When Higginson arrived in Salem, he wrote that "we found a faire house newly built for the Governor" which was remarkable for being two stories high.[sup][3][/sup]
By 1634 the name of Cape Ann was already established, as it is mentioned and depicted on maps in William Wood's New England's Prospect first published in that year.
Local culture
At the end of Cape Ann, and splitting Gloucester into two parts, is the Annisquam River. Many locals who live in Gloucester and Rockport refer to the land east of the Annisquam as "The Island".[sup][4][/sup] There is a waning but still persistent sense of independence that exists amongst some of those living there who are from old families that they rarely, or never, "cross over the bridge" since everything they need is on the island. The island has its own schools, water supply (by quarries), and even its own hospital, the Addison Gilbert Hospital.
Popular culture
Cape Ann is the location of the fictional town of Sea Harbor, the setting of the Seaside Knitters mysteries by author Sally Goldenbaum (author's site). Sea Harbor is on the coast, with Gloucester as its nearest neighbor town. Cape Ann is also featured as the setting for the Harry Chapin song 'Dogtown'.
The fictional "Gloucester Island" in 1966 Cold War comedy film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming is supposedly located off Cape Ann, and was named for the city of Gloucester.

kurtyang04 · 2014-08-27 21:07

这里过去盛产一种建筑材料，就是大理石，有个知名的避风港就是用大理石围成。

kurtyang04 · 2014-08-27 21:14

而贴近cape ann半岛的北部区域有美东最好的沙滩区之一，从此绵延到缅因首府portland, 长长俩三百公里，都是上等的沙滩，　沙滩里的海湾又是著名的泥滩，属于美国蛤蜊类海洋贝壳类最有经济价值的一块。

kurtyang04 · 2014-08-27 21:25

神奇的浅滩，在落潮中变成一个个沙丘沙岛，有时某个沙岛变成洋人机动艇的伊甸园，人们在此饮酒作乐，不亦乐乎，　等潮水上涨，人们纷纷上船，离开此地，于是海水漫过沙丘，又成为一片海洋，回复了原先的空阔和安静。　

这些沙滩更是皮划艇的天堂，海洋的魅力在于博大和多变，那种潮水迅速淹没沙丘的感觉很特别。

kurtyang04 · 2014-08-27 21:32

头天有个小小的风暴，我们挑选当天就是奔着浪过去，半米至一米的中浪，包括风浪和破浪，一望无际。　两位美眉异常兴奋，加上我，　三个完成了目前为止与大海最亲密接触（连续中浪的地方当天大概划了十多公里，　没浪的地方十多公里）。可以说，海里的浪一点不输河里的激流。

kurtyang04 · 2014-08-27 21:34

太阳落山前，大海慢慢恢复平静，那种落日前在海里感觉，　是陆地永远不可能体会到地。

kurtyang04 · 2014-08-27 21:43

人也是户外主体，在技术保障下，人的激情决定了大自然的反馈。大海的馈赠又倒过来激发同学们的进一步学习热情。当天吃到两位姐妹带来的美食，如俄国烟熏鱼，自己考制的红豆饼，以及其他健康食品。

这两姐妹参加了一些冲浪的训练，这次在经历几百个的风浪和破浪前，游刃有余，在大海前完整感受了其魅力，异常兴奋，充满了对生活和自然的爱，我想这就是美好人生。

一个好的团队，不但给安全加分，而且他她们的才华，热情给一个本来极普通的海洋舟活动，制造了一出户外大戏。　质比量更重要。