Today’s official sunrise was 5:25 a.m.
Ten minutes earlier — at 5:15 — Jimmy Izzo sent this photo:
(Photo/Jimmy Izzo)
This group is ready for the fireworks.
And basketball.
An hour later — 6:18 a.m. — Compo was considerably more crowded.
Soundview Drive, during the beach chair drop-off. (Photo/Matt Murray)
(Photo/Matt Murray)
Before 6:30 a.m.. (Photo/Pam Kesselman)
Not parked — just a drop-off.
Those chairs will be joined by many, many others — they already have been, in fact.
The Westport fireworks — sponsored by Melissa and Doug Bernstein, and Westport PAL — don’t start for another 14 or so hours.
But — on the hottest day of the summer so far — Westport’s coolest party of the year is about to begin.
Meanwhile, for the first time this year, Police have restricted parking on Hillspoint Road. The goal is to help move traffic after the show.
Illegally parked cars will be ticketed — and towed to Longshore.
Hillspoint Road, last night. (Photo/Tracy Porosoff)
Wow! I remember when we used to drive over and park by rows in the big lot, sit on the hoods, and beep our horns at the good ones.
I thought you can’t drop off chairs, etc and then leave. Am I wrong?
Never ceases to amaze me how self-absorbed some of the town can get over such an event. Setting up camp so early and then return 8 hrs later expecting everything to be as left. I pity the family who naively arrives a few hours before the fireworks expecting to find a small patch of sand to sit on. No Kings indeed!