Remember last summer how I kept saying I was going to get up super early and go to Salisbury Beach and take pics of the sunrise? Remember how it wasn’t until mid-September that I actually did it? This year I thought I’d go to Hampton Beach and do the same thing. I even started with the whole telling people I was going to go and then not waking up early enough to go thing.

Last night we went to bed pretty early. Neither of us slept well on Friday night and we were both pretty wiped out. My poor love has a really bad cold and she was needing sleep. I was just tired. I told my beloved that if I found myself awake around 4am I was going to go to the beach. She said okay and probably assumed I was just an idiot.

I woke up at 2am. Why? I don’t know. I do know that I couldn’t get back to sleep. By 2:30 I was lying in bed reading twitter. By 3:00 I was sitting on the couch watching youtube videos of death metal bands some acquaintances of mine were in back in high school. By 4:00 I was dressed with Waze set to bring me to the ocean. By 6:00 I was back home with a crap load of new pics to bore everyone with.

Here you go…

I pulled into the main beach area parking lot only to find that there was a little peninsula that was between me and the spot the sun appeared to be heading for. Crap! I drove further down and found this little spot between a couple of piles of rocks. The tide seemed to be very much in so I had to climb over an obstacle course of rocks (the ones you see in this pic) to get to it. And the sand flies. Holy crap, the sand flies! They were there in Salisbury last year but they left me alone. Not today. I was bitten a whole bunch of times.

That spot where the sky is starting to get brighter? That’s the spot that I couldn’t see from the main beach.

While waiting for the sun to appear I had to amuse myself somehow. Splash.

There it is, just starting to poke over the horizon.

Meathead continues to amuse himself.

Good morning!

Zoom.

And the nitwit continues to amuse himself.

I put the ND filter on for these, just to see how they’d look.

The land you see here is part of what was blocking the view from the main beach.

And one to grow on.

So last year I went to Salisbury Beach in Massachusetts. This time I went to Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. Does that mean next time I have to go to Old Orchard Beach in Maine? The time after that should be Cadillac Mountain, the first spot on the East coast that sees the sunrise. After that I’ll have to go South to Rhode Island, I guess.

Happy Sunday morning sunrise, everyone.