Beaches, Boats, Coasts, and Surf Cams...

Here are some of my favorite live web cams. If you can't go to the beach or sail, click on a web cam link, look at the surf or the harbor and dream.

The sea is the great consoler. She may beguile us.
She may challenge us, she may destroy us, but she never refuses us.
Tristan Jones

Check out the NEW Mystic Seaport Webcam in Mystic, Connecticut and see the newly launched Amistad. Control the cam. Turn the camera left toward Long Island Sound. Wisp will be moored in Noank just west of Mystic.

With ghosting sails, we can glide over the water that scarcely shows a ripple
and the feeling is one of calmness and tranquility.
Hal Roth

Casco Bay Cam Portland, ME

The sea being smooth, 
how many shallow bauble boats dare sail
upon her patient breast.
William Shakespeare

Pipeline, Hawaii Surfcam

Give the wind and tide a chance to change.
Richard Byrd

This is a MUST SEE Visit Nantucket Island. Check out the "Gray Lady's" Harbor, Cobblestone, Bus, and Cybercafe cams. Real Player is required for this site.

Take out your map and look at it. 
See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there away off shore....
Look at it -- a mere hillock, an elbow of sand; all beach, without a background.
--Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Block Island New Harbor Cam . The image to the right is a current picture from the web cam.

Learn to use the tides and currents to your advantage.
Lin and Larry Pardey

A sailor's joys are as simple as a child's.
Bernard Moitessier

We come on the Sloop John B
My grandfather and me
Around Nassau town we did roam
Drinking all night
Got into a fight
Well I feel so broke up
I want to go home
The Beach Boys

St. Teresa, FL Beachcam

To reach the port of heaven,
we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, 
but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes