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Northshore October 2025
From the beach at Folly Cove in Gloucester, there are two viewpoints. Look left and there’s a sheer rock wall that plunges into the sea; to the right, rocks and boulders cluster together along the shore. “Underwater it looks exactly like that,” says Jerry Shine, but with one big difference: an abundance of sea life along the rock walls. Dive on the left side, and you’ll be rewarded with sightings of colorful anemones and weirdly shaped and colored sluglike nudibranchs. Dive on the cove’s rocky right side, and you might spot large schools of pollock or bright yellow sea ravens, maybe even squid if you dive at n
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