Plum Island Shipwreck

December 14, 2002. Drenched is the best description for me after this video. And, a ruined waterlogged camera that will only work for a little longer and take only a few more videos. It's December, cold, and stormy. The night before I'd been at the winter celebrations in Newburyport, Massachuestts. Every year the first two Fridays of December, Newburyport stays open. The stores have festive wassail, cider, munchies, chocolate thingies, popcorn, chips and dip out for tasting (don't eat before you go). People walking down the street singing Christmas Carols. It is festive. I go there every year. At one store I heard someone talking about a shipwreck on Plum Island. Plum Island is an actual island connected to Newbury/Newburyport by a bridge. "Where's the shipwreck?" I'm given very vague directions. Somewhere on the beach. As it turns out my directions are a couple of miles off, but at least they gave me the correct directions down the beach so I will be walking in the right direction for those miles. Even if it is in a storm. What do I do the next day? It has gotten colder and stormier. Do I stay in a warm home? Nope. I hop in my car, drive to Plum Island, and with excellent directions ("Oh, it's somewhere on the beach) walk the miles down the beach to the shipwreck and start videoing. Tide coming in. Every wave that bursts over the shipwreck sends spray that lands on me. Tide still coming in and I'll have to back up. It's cold. It's mighty windy. It's cold. I'm being battered by the ocean. An ocean that would easily pull the shipwreck back into it if it weren't anchored to the beach. Finally, it is lonely and desolate. The shipwreck, the wind, the ocean, the lonely beach. The waves pounding. The lowing sky. A very timeless feeling. Those waves have been crashing on this beach for eons. This time there's something in their way. Most often they just crash. There's been other storms, other ships that have wrecked. No loss of life in this one, though. But, is it ever cold. Eventually, it'll be bright, the shipwreck will be gone (had to be cut apart), the sand will be smoothed out, and there will be no sign there ever was a shipwreck here.

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: yvettegr

Length: 03:25
Rating: 4.18
Views: 14216

Tags: battering  crashing  drenched  island  newburyport  ocean  plum  shipwreck  shore  storm  to  waves  

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