Since Lake Erie is beginning to freeze over, I will likely be losing my beautiful sunrise and sunset views from its webcams. I have begun to collect webcams from the East Coast and West Coast to watch the sunrise and sunset. These are all YouTube cameras which retain about a 12 hour loop so you can go back and replay the sunrise or sunset if you missed it. Below are a selection for your viewing pleasure. All these YouTube cameras have picture within a picture functions. If you click on it, it becomes a little picture in the lower right- hand corner which you can monitor while doing other work, or while watching another camera full view as a screen saver.
Gorgeous day in Myrtle Beach!
Live look from Crown Reef Beach Resort and Waterpark!
Vacation Myrtle Beach
Started streaming on Jun 1, 2022
This one is actually turned toward the sunrise at the beginning of the day
but more southward during the day.
Live Myrtle Beach View - Captain's Quarters Resort
Vacation Myrtle Beach
Started streaming on Nov 9, 2022
This one is always pointed at the same direction
which is slightly northward
it will probably pickup sunrises as the year progresses.
Hamptons.com - LIVE!
Tiana Beach, Hampton Bays, New York
This is the best Hampton beach camera for picking up the sunrise
All the YouTube cameras have sound
but the Hamptons have the best sound because they are the closest to the waves.
Hamptons.com LIVE! SAGG MAIN BEACH, Sagaponack, New York
Started streaming on Jan 16, 2024
While this webcam does not get the sunrise
it is very good during the rest of the day and gets the sunset.
Again good wave sound.
805 Webcams Pismo Beach Webcam - Shore Cliff
This camera has about a 180-degree view through preset,
every 30 seconds it hops to a new preset.
Right now its after 5pm sunsets are after 8pm
So we can view this until about 9pm
when we turn YouTube to the Saint Meinrad Monks
who celebrated vespers earlier at 5pm central time
South Haven Light - 360° Live Lighthouse Cam on Lake Michigan
Historical Association of South Haven
3.36K subscribers
Started streaming on Dec 10, 2024
Is this the webcam of the future?
This is one of those 365 degree vertical and horizontal camera.
which you can change view direction by moving your cursor.
Fairport Harbor has two lighthouses.
The modern functional one at the end of the break water.
The old historic museum one up on the hill.
They should install these cameras on both.
They are always trying rather unsuccessfully to attract tourists.
Maybe they could become the Myrtle Beach
and Hamptons of the Northcoast?
These are neat webcam videos. My favorites are the Hampton ones, where you hear the sound of the waves and the gulls.
ReplyDeleteI am grateful to be able to actually see more sunrises now that I am retired. When I was working it was usually still dark when I left home, except in the longest days of summer.
It seems like we are paying more attention to the skies now. My husband and I like to observe the moon changes, and the way the moon looks different whether we see it in the day, or at night. There has been a bright evening star early in the evening in the winter. We will try to observe the confluence of planets that is supposed to be visible now. We might have missed the best night because of cloud coverage.
A lot of people have shared photos of the northern lights displays lately. We haven't seen them in person but like to look at the pictures.
I think I've mentioned before: when I was a college student at Loyola in Chicago, I lived at its Lake Shore campus, which as the name states is situated on the shore of Lake Michigan. The campus looks due east across the lake. I don't think I ever witnessed a sunrise, but on several occasions I witnessed the moonrise over the lake. It's stunning.
ReplyDeleteMy undergrad college, Marymount, was perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific, with an outstanding view of Catalina island ( the one in the old song - Santa Catalina is a waiting for me). My senior year was the last year there - the next Sept the women moved on to the Loyola campus and the co-Ed university renamed Loyola Marymount University. We were privileged to have spectacular sunsets almost every night. As the sun set into the ocean next to the island, it got bigger and bigger and bigger - until it looked like it was under the water reflecting up, before disappearing. I would think that a similar effect would be true in the Great Lakes also.
ReplyDeleteOne of my grandmas spent a year or so working in California before she got married. She told me about taking a ride in a glass bottomed boat to Catalina.
DeleteMy other grandma went to Redlands University in CA for a semester before she came back to Nebraska. She enjoyed the experience but got homesick.
Glad both of them got to do those things before they started their lives as busy farm wives.
I love webcams. There is a webcam in the mountains where I grew up that is focused on an eagles nest so that people can watch their activity and countdown days to the expected hatching of eggs. There are numerous eagles nest cams around I think.
ReplyDeleteHere is one for Stanley - it is in Kazimierz Dolny Poland. There may be webcams in your ancestral towns too, Stanley. There are more than one in KD - different views of the square. I first discovered them when my son went there the day after Christmas the year he and his wife got engaged.Her family spends every Christmas in Poland.
https://youtu.be/mmJcVwO_i4E
https://kazimierz-dolny.webcamera.pl/
Thanks, Anne and Jack. I definitely haven’t used webcams enough.
DeleteIf you can look at sunsets over the ocean, look for the green flash. A rare but complex natural phenomenon. If you see one, consider yourself lucky. But, yes, regular, everyday sunsets are beautiful. How it happens at the edge of a flat disk at different times for different places is beyond me.
ReplyDeleteI've seen the "phosphorus" on waves in Lake Superior and the fata morgana on Lake Michigan. https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2010/04/wednesday_night_lights_on_lake.html
DeleteRaber was a navigator in the Navy, and they had to learn celestial nav and take sextant readings every day. If the commies wipe out satellite positioning, the ships need to know where they are.
Anyway, they saw some very weird stuff in the middle of the ocean.
Yes. Always need backup. I had to redesign the reticles in our mortar sights every ten years so they could find north by placing three circles on three stars, one of which was, of course, Polaris. Redesign was necessary because of the earth’s axis’ precession. Another 12,000 years, Vega will be the north star. That’ll be 1,200 reticle adjustments.
DeleteFata Morgana is cool. The mirage is right side up. Never saw one.
I’ve read about the green flash. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen it. Nor have I seen the northern lights, even during the few occasions when they were visible this far south. And we can’t see the annual meteor showers - too much light pollution. However we did see some once when we were vacationing on a somewhat remote island off the Florida Gulf coast
ReplyDeleteMeteor showers are fun, but "shower" is a bit of a misnomer. As a kid I expected them to literally rain down, but usually 15 seconds to several minutes between. Our neighbor has a motion detector floodlights. If he's home, he turns it off for us while we are outdoors. Otherwise we don't see much. Seen Northern Lights several times up north. Always feels a bit creepy. Reminds me that we are just a speck of dust ramming around the Void being bombarded with forces beyond our control like in "Horton Hears a Who."
DeleteIt’s almost like we weren’t meant to be here but here we are nevertheless. As Scott Carey says at the end of “The Incredible Shrinking Man”, “To God, there is no zero. I still exist”.
DeleteHere's the live webcam from the Soo Locks, from where I used to live. The eastern Upper Peninsula is a beloved place for me, but looking at the webcam, I have to ask myself: Why? It looks like a Siberian mining town. And that's not far off the mark. But I still get weepy thinking about the place.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2djzpbW_E1Q