Surf Check, Cape Cod (and Duxbury), Hurricane Teddy Offshore

 

Hurricane Teddy was 400 miles offshore on Tuesday, but the waves made it to the Cape. Our people went out to stalk surf. 

We started out in Truro.

The waves were huge, but they were very messy. No slow rollers, more like roller derby.

If the man is properly insured, I'd like to come back with a gang of folks and try to roll that house down that hill.

Truro is a long haul for me, I started in Bourne this morning, worked a day shift, then made it to the Baller by 3:30. High tide was 4:30, but I can never stick in one spot too long. The locals were also telling us that where we parked would be flooded well before high tide.

We hung out a while, anyway....

... took a few pictures

...and a few measurements.

Ex beach to the next beach....

Newcomb Hollow, in Wellfleet.

I'm pretty sure that's a kid, and if she is, that should be her yearbook photo unless she grows up to be really pretty. 

Seas just offshore were in the 20-25 foot range, but things got mighty messy when they got near the shore.

No 20 footers were hitting the shore, in case you are reading this from afar and own a Wellfleet beach house.

See?

As you can see below, Wellfleet was having a two-for-one sale on People Looking Pensively At The Sea.

Off to the next town...

East-HAM!

You can hear Stephen either pronounce "Eastham" properly or fail miserably at it, in the video below...

That's the video we could use. In the video we couldn't use, and I swear all of this happened, Stephen saw a purse laying under a car with Pennsylvania plates. He walked over to the crowd, bellowed (Stephen was an urban high school teacher, and is one of the best bellowers I know) "Pennsylvania," got lucky and found the person, who turned out to be elderly. She went and got her purse back, and Stephen started filming. Someone honked at him, most likely for blocking their view, and he turned around and told them to f**k themselves... just as the little old lady came back and asked him to take a picture of her and her sister with the waves in the background. Stephen shut off his thug in an instant, said "Yes, Ma'am" in his most polite voice and took a few shots of the grandmothers. There's a 50% chance this went out on Facebook Live, as we can't seem to find the video and Stephen isn't smart enough to turn the camera off before he assaults someone.

In case you think I am picking on Stephen unfairly for being dumb, he just read that sentence I wrote above and said, "I'd want that sh*t on Facebook."

Well, probably time to get some space between us and Eastham.

How many towns in Massachusetts are named after someone's first name? I do know a kid named Chatham, but he was named after the town. Dennis actually is named after someone, a minister who I'm pretty sure was named Dennis.

I often skip the Cape during storms because there aren't enough houses-in-peril photo opportunities. You can find them if you bang around enough.

We were at Dennis a bit after high tide. Hey, we covered a lot of ground!

While looking up who Dennis is named for, I found out that Bette Davis was "discovered" at the Cape Playhouse in North Dennis. She was working as an usher. There's only so much I can write about surf, people.

The north wind sent us to Dennis and Barnstable after we did the Outer Cape. North winds tend to hammer the Cape's north shore, and we were already out there, so why not check it out?

Off we go...

... to Barnstable.

I held this up at every beach I went to, and it never broke 25mph.

We were well past an hour after high tide.

This was town #5 that we visited, although that goes up to 7 if you count the morning article.

The trip is almost done when I can see the Sandwich power plant.

Scooby and the Mystery Machine Gang had arrived, so Barnstable was in good hands.

So we headed to Sandwich again. This guy must have enjoyed a wonderful day of sailing on the stormy Atlantic.

Sandwich seemed to be where the bigger waves stopped happening.

Surf Check added bonus... Duxbury and Marshfield.

My sister gets involved with this column from time to time, and this was one of those times.

Have a great day, everyone. Wednesday should be less stormy.