No major storm or anything, but we still went out see the waves...
We never lead off in Scituate, mostly due to her centralized location on the South Shore. That ends today.
We were there about 45 minutes before high tide.
Yes, that's our photographer cursing in our video above, and yes, he's with a kid.
Even if the weather isn't that bad, Scituate always looks a bit stormy.
"Scituate sounds like the degree you get if you study Science Fiction at a community college"... some guy in one of those People From Out Of State Try To Pronounce Massachusetts Town Names videos.
Hey! I think this is Hull! How did it sneak into the Scituate part? Oh, never mind, we're in the Hull part.
The storm was moving south to north, we were chasing it, and we caught the tail end of it in Nantasket. Hull was wavier, rainier, mistier and just plain stormier than the other towns we visited.
Lots o' people were out watching the waves. It wasn't that bad of a day once the rain stopped.
Hull, which gets almost no protection at all from Cape Cod if the storm tracks a certain way, often has the best South Shore waves of any storm.
I posted up for like 10 minutes, hoping to catch this guy slipping and get a pic of him getting splashed by a big wave, but no such luck... it just wasn't that bad of a storm.
We need to spend more storm time in North Hull.
There wasn't much wind to push the waves along.
Time for the next town....
Cohasset!
We also skip Cohasset a lot, because it is a bit of a run from 3A ro rhe coast, and the time we use for that usually is the time we go from Nantasket to Marsh Vegas. We hung in Cohasset a while longer today.
Cohasset has a very rocky coast which means that I don't get flooding neighborhood shots there, and will usually head somewhere more floody, like Marshfield or Duxbury.
Beach, waves, pretty girl, cute dog, boulders, stone wall, rock island, lighthouse... even a big clumsy photographer couldn't screw this shot up.
We were at Cohasset a half hour after high tide.
I love this house!
Next stop... after lunch...
Duxbury!
I had a hungry kid, so we didn't get to Duxbury until some time after high tide. The storm had passed, too, so we were basically out of Surf Check and into Beach Walk.
The surf was still nice, though...
We plan to spam this into Plymouth groups merely because you can see Manomet in the distant background
... and Marshfield in the distant background if I turn the other way. We'll spam it there, too.
No surf here, I just needed a shot of this house for a future article.
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