We did a coastal cruise Tuesday, checking out some waves.
We started in Sagamore Beach, well before high tide.
Saggy wasn't that bad.
Next stop... Hull.
We were at Nantasket Beach for high tide.
The problem with Hull is that you have to travel some distance off the highway to get to it. We got a late jump from the Cape and only had time to hit one more spot before darkness. We chose Duxbury, mostly to see if the new seawall was getting a test. The waves weren't that bad, though...
The ocean was very much unconcerned with the Georgia runoff elections.
Only people from Duxbury Beach or Green Harbor who spam for a living will understand the joy I feel using this picture to spam this article into Marshfield town Facebook groups. Marshfield is the dark smudge above the water in that shot. To be fair, seasoned Marsh Vegas residents can look at a shot of Duxbury Beach and have a pretty good idea how, say, Ocean Bluff looks.
The seawall opening in the new Duxbury wall is still sealed off in the Old School manner every winter.
We finished off at Minervas in Fairhaven, facing New Bedford. We also finished off on Wednesday, after we decided to skip the Outer Cape part of this article. I may be wrong, but I believe that Fairhaven is the only Minervas left since Wareham and Cedarville closed. Buzzards Bay House Of Pizza is a Minervas offshoot, but the last one with the name is in Fuh-haven.
Our goal today is to rank South Shore beaches by their vulnerability to coastal storms. Keep in mind that most of the storms we get around here are nor'easters. If we worked hurrciane damage into this list, it would significantly alter the ratings, putting places like Cape Cod and New Bedford into the top of the mix while kicking Marshfield and Scituate way down the list. We are going to mix the rubric in with the rankings, rather than explain it here. We'd be here all day, trust me. We're not claiming the state title. The North Shore has her own problems. We're just leaving that for some North Shore writer to figure out. Cape Cod also is in a class by herself, in that they get far worse hurricane damage than the South Shore gets nor'easter damage. They also get larger waves from storms than the South Shore gets. Their problem is that hurricanes don't happen that often here in Massachusetts. We are using town-by-town rankings. Ideally, we would rank this categ...
Today, we are going to assume that one side of the "Where Cape Cod ends" argument is correct, and that side is the "Cape Cod ends at the Canal" opinion. We're choosing this side because we're very interested in the follow-up questions to ending Cape Cod at the Canal. If you choose the Canal as the cutoff point, you have to reclassify several villages from two Cape towns. Almost all of Sandwich is east of the Canal, which is the Rubicon for this argument. Scusset Beach, however, is "on the mainland," but still part of Sandwich. Bourne has a greater chunk of town on the mainland, with Buzzards Bay, Bournedale and Sagamore Beach representing hard north of the Canal. Chopping these villages off of Cape Cod completely to make a new town is a fun idea for a columnist. They would make for a very small town. I don't think Scusset has any people at all. Buzzards Bay, with 3800 people, is Bourne's most populous village. Sagamore Beach isn't far...
Pictures and video of our South Coast sledding rampage. That's South Coast, Massachusetts, player. If I had to go to war, I'd take one good sledder over 100 of those NASCAR folks driving circles in Alabama or wherever. This is Potato Hill in Westport. If you want to see a 250 pound 52 year old guy on a child's toy, look out below... Potato Hill is a popular spot with local sledders, but my kid had been pulled from school for a special sledding-related research project for a local media conglomerate, so we had the place to ourselves mostly. Potato Hill is a pretty steep climb if you smoke a pack a day or have the Covid or something. Next stop... the old Fairhaven Drive-In. We had to park sort of sketchy, but locals probably have a better plan for this than I did. Fairhaven has two hills, the closer one is less daunting, the farther one is steeper and has jumps. Pierce Playground, or Pierce Beach if you get going really fast and can't stop. Pierce Beach is in Somerset...
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