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Connecticut { 31 images } Created 13 Jul 2020

I have spent at least a part of every summer since I was 10 at the Connecticut shore and this gallery holds a smattering of images taken over the years from Mystic Seaport to OpSail 2012 to everyday scenes along the beaches and backwaters in and around Niantic, CT. You can find many more Connecticut travel photographs in my Archive or simply use the search box to find the town or the type of scene you are looking for.
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  • New London, Connecticut, USA - July 7, 2012: Sailors furl the sails on the US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle when it arrives at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut at the conclusion of the Parade of Sail during OpSail 2012. The Eagle is a 295-foot barque used as a training ship for the United States Coast Guard.
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  • A riot of reflections in the water as storm clouds clear on an autumn day in Niantic, East Lyme, Connecticut, October 2018.
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  • Common reeds Phragmites australis in the mist, on a foggy summer day, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA in a saltmarsh. Part of a series of dreamy New England nature photography taken during a foggy rainy day.
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  • Crew members furl the sails on the US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle when it arrives at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut at the conclusion of the Parade of Sail on Day 2 of OpSail 2012. The Eagle, originally a German ship, came to the US as part of war reparations after WWII. The 295-foot barque, now a training ship for the United States Coast Guard, led the parade of tall ships.
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  • July 6, 2012 - Crowds watch a Navy LCAC (Landing Craft Air Cushioned)  hovercraft land on Hole-in-the-Wall Beach in Niantic, Connecticut during OpSail 2012 opening day celebrations.
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  • New London, Connecticut, USA - July 9, 2012: The Cisne Branco, the tall ship of the Brazilian Navy, moored at Fort Trumbull will be the last ship to head for home tonight on the last day of OpSail 2012 CT. Other than the US Coast Guard barque Eagle, whose home port is New London, the other ships sailed away from Fort Trumbull today to their home ports as Day 4 of OpSail 2012 Connecticut, celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the penning of the Star Spangled Banner, the US National Anthem, draws to a close.
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  • With Hurricane Sandy still a day away from reaching land in New England and along the Atlantic coast, clouds, wind and surf build up along the Connecticut shoreline in Niantic, CT. View from Main  Beach Pier at Black Point Beach Club looking out toward the Millstone Nuclear Power Plant. Much of the Connecticut coast suffered damage, including this beach, although the brunt of the storm hit futher south in New York and New Jersey. A gull seem oblivious to the rising waves.
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  • Rocky Neck State Park, Niantic, East Lyme, Connecticut USA
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  • A double rainbow appears over Sheffield Island, Norwalk, Connecticut USA, August 2013.
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  • New sweet corn grows on a farm in Niantic Connecticut USA July 2012. It's called Scotty's  Farm. Their corn is the best I've ever tasted. In the summer I love introducing friends to it when they visit.  I've been going here every summer since I was 10 years old. We even got our first dog here.
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  • Common Reed, Phragmites australis and saltwater tidal marsh in autumn, Niantic, town of East Lyme, Connecticut, New England scenic.
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  • Common reeds (Phragmites australis) in a saltwater marsh in Niantic Connecticut, USA, silhouetted against a dramatic sky just after sunset in the late spring, with pink and purple reflections in the water, May 2013.
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  • A saltmarsh, known to area residents as the backwaters, at sunset with a dock in the foreground, Niantic, Connecticut, USA, May 2013. The point where the marsh empties into Long Island Sound and eventually the Atlantic Ocean can be seen on the horizon.
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  • Black Point Beach, Niantic, East Lyme, Connecticut blue hour with a pastel sky and clouds view across the water with pink and purple reflections on the sea, July 2018.
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  • Niantic, Connecticut USA, August  22, 2019 - Residents of this small New England beach town and vacationers enjoy a beautiful summer day by the sea on Long Island Sound.
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  • Clouds and buoy at sunset
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  • New London, Connecticut, USA - July 9, 2012: With the tall ships due to sail away from Fort Trumbull to their home ports as OpSail 2012, celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the penning of the Star Spangled Banner, the US National Anthem, draws to a close, Lori and Brian Webster, and their children Sophia, age 11 and Gavin, age 7 look at the US Coast Guard tall ship Eagle and the Brazilian tall ship Cisne Branco (White Swan) . The Websters, from Seabrook Texas were on vacation visiting family from Connecticut.
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  • New London, Connecticut, USA - July 9, 2012: The stern of the US Coast Guard training ship Eagle with the American flag flying, seen here moored at Fort Trumbull, on the last day of OpSail 2012 CT, celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the penning of the Star Spangled Banner, the US National Anthem. The skyline of the city of New London can be seen in the background.
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  • New London, Connecticut, USA - July 9, 2012: The Cisne Branco, which means White Swan, the tall ship of the Brazilian Navy, approaches Ledge Light lighthouse as it leaves Fort Trumbull in New London on its way back to Brazil. The Cisne Branco, a Navy training ship, was the last ship to head for home tonight on Day 4 of OpSail 2012 CT and the final day of the nationwide OpSail festivities that began this spring to celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the penning of the Star Spangled Banner, the US National Anthem.
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  • Sheffield Island Lighthouse, Sheffield Island, Norwalk Connecticut USA, August 2013. The granite lighthouse was activated in 1868 and served the area until 1902 when it was replaced by the Greens Ledge Light.house. It was then used as a summer residence for many years by a private owner who purchased it from the government. The Norwalk Seaport Association purchased it in 1987; they maintain it as a historic site and run a ferry to the island between May and September.
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  • The Mystic Seaport Lighthouse, built in 1966, is a full size replica of the Brant Point Lighthouse in Nantucket, Massachusetts, a harbor lighthouse and the shortest in New England. Though never an aid to navigation, it currently houses a fourth order Fresnel lens on loan from the United States Coast Guard. When you visit Mystic Connecticut, you can enter the lighthouse and watch two short videos about lighthouses. The US has more lighthouses than any other country in the world.
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  • Historic Mystic Seaport waterfront on the Mystic River in autumn with lobster boxes and tall ships sailboats. Mystic Connecticut was a wooden shipbuilding center from the 1600s through the 1800s. In 1929 residents founded the Marine Historical Association to keep the past alive. The seaport, with historical buildings, demonstrations and ships, is a popular New England tourist destination.
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  • Historic Mystic Seaport waterfront on the Mystic River in autumn. Mystic Connecticut was a wooden shipbuilding center from the 1600s through the 1800s. In 1929 residents founded the Marine Historical Association to keep the past alive. The seaport, with historical buildings, demonstrations and ships, is a popular New England tourist destination. The Mystic Lighthouse, built in 1966, is a full size replica of the Brant Point Lighthouse in Nantucket, Massachusetts, a harbor lighthouse and the shortest in New England. Though never an aid to navigation, it currently houses a fourth order Fresnel lens on loan from the United States Coast Guard. When you visit, you can enter the lighthouse and watch two short videos about lighthouses. The US has more lighthouses than any other country in the world.
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  • Rocky Neck State Park, Niantic, East Lyme, Connecticut USA SHARPEST BY A LOT
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  • Vintage dinghies at the Connecticut shore in Niantic, CT, July 2014. Two rowboats moored just offshore, a classic New England scene.
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  • Summer in Niantic looking from Black Point Beach to Attawan Beach along the Connecticut shore as a herring gull (laurus argentauatus) comes in for a landing. Seascape with seagull, water, shoreline and summer cottages at the beach.
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  • Gorton Pond, East Lyme, Connecticut fall color
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  • Sailors furl the sails on the US Coast Guard Cutter Eagle when it arrives at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut at the conclusion of the Parade of Sail during OpSail 2012. The Eagle is a 295-foot barque used as a training ship for the United States Coast Guard.
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  • New London, Connecticut, USA - July 9, 2012: Nine-year-old Amelia Baca greets her sister, United States Coast Guard 3rd Class Cadet Micaela Baca, at the pier at Fort Trumbull where the Coast Guard Barque Eagle, on which Cadet Baca has been training, is moored for the balance of OpSail 2012 CT which ends today with the various ships sailing back to their home ports. The Eagle's homeport is New London, Connecticut. Amelia, a triplet, came with her mother and two triplet brothers from their home in Lexington, Virginia to visit their sister the cadet.
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  • Waterford, Connecticut USA, August 2019 - Dominion Millstone Nuclear Power Station, largest nuclear power plant in New England and the only one still operating in Connecticut, opened in 1970.
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