Block Island's New Harbor WebCam
About the WebCam
The WebCam is located on a utility pole at
the Oar Restaurant and pointed a few degrees West of North. The Camera is
an Axis 200+ camera-server in a weather proof housing and configured to
take a picture and transit it to this web site every 15 minutes. It does
that with an onboard modem which dials a local ISP and transmits the photo
as a JPEG file with FTP. The camera has a manually adjustable zoom lens
which can be adjusted to change the field of view. The lens also has an
automatic iris which uses a signal from the CCD adjust amount of light
which comes into the lens. All the camera needs is an AC power line and a
phone line to operate which will make it easy to relocate the camera when
the seasons change and a fresh view of Block Island is selected.
What the camera is seeing:
Foreground: (30ft - 300ft/9m -
90m) The Block Island Boat Basin dock with the dock-shed at the end and
ramps down to the floating docks.
Intermediate: (300ft - 3000ft/90m -
900m) The mooring area of the Great Salt Pond on the left of the
navigation channel and the anchoring area on the right.
In the
Distance: (3/4mile - /1.25km - ) The Coast Guard Station on the left of
the channel into the Pond, and Beane Point in the Middle.
Distance from the camera to the entrance channel is about 3/4 of a mile (1.25 km).
Who made it possible:
Block Island's first WebCam is a
production of Offshore Services, Ltd which also produces the
Block Island Home Page. It
was made possible in part with the support and encouragement of long time
Block Island maritime visitor, Richard
Danes. For an interesting tour of Block Island's maritime
attractions, a visit to his site is a must!.
These WebCams are expensive to purchase and to operate. Without our sponsors, this camera would not be possible.
Please consider visiting and patronizing our commercial sponsors listed below:
WebCam Commercial Sponsors:
Richard
Daines
Samuel
Peckham Inn
Persuader
Sportfishing Charters
Oceans
and Ponds, The Orvis Store
The
Weather Bureau Inn
The
Block Island Tourism Council
Want to become a sponsor? Please contact us at webmaster@blockisland.com.