Great Point Light, November, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
This landscape photo of Great Point Light was made in November of 1990. In this photograph, the evening light shines off the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean, the gray clouds having partially parted just before sunset. The beach grasses are russet in color, here in late autumn.
Great Point is the wild, remote spit of sand that gives Nantucket Island its distinctive hook shape at the northeast end. A nature reserve, you need a permit to drive a vehicle onto it. A four wheel drive vehicle is required as well, because to get out the the extreme end of the Point you will be driving on a track across soft sand and some mudholes.
I was on the island for the first time, visiting my baby sister. At that time, little did I know that I would be returning in the spring, hired as the Mate on a charter fishing boat out of Madaket, on the island's western end.
Photo location: Great Point, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.
