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.
Is Gentrification changing the character of the Irish Riviera? Duxbury Beach, the very tiny slice of Irish Riviera that the gods allotted Duxbury, will be today's case study. Duxbury Beach is the smallest Irish Riviera neighborhood outside of Gurnet/Saquish, and is thusly easier to scout for this phenomena than somewhere which jams people thickly along the coastline like Scituate or Hull does. About half of Marshfield's population is within a mile of the ocean. The DBC is about 2% of Duxbury's population. Changes here are instantly noticeable. Size doesn't matter, as I tell my girlfriends. Gentrification of beach neighborhoods is inevitable. You just see it easier in a small village. Gentrification is an influx of wealthier residents into a formerly working class neighborhood which gradually changes the character of the neighborhood. The causes are legion, but they almost all tie to money eventually. Someone is giving up a house for monetary reasons, and someone is b...
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...
Urban planning is better with a sense of humor... This is Buttermilk Bay flooding Hideaway Village in Buzzards Bay. That's Buzzards Bay, village, not Buzzards Bay, body of water. Water can't flood water, I think. Buttermilk Bay flooding out Buzzards Bay is one of those Massachusetts things like "You're driving on Rte 1, Rte 93, Rte 3 and the Southeast Expressway, and it's the same road" or "Rte 6 and Rte 28 are the same road, until they're not" that confuse non-locals. Hideaway Village, which has Cohasset Narrows between it and Buzzards Bay (body of water), doesn't get really large waves. River runoff (Red Brook empties into Buttermilk Bay), storm surge and a strong South wind can shove the water inland somewhat. A series of storms has had this effect on the area all week, and I'm guessing that no one has a basement in Hideaway Village, It would take a bad hurricane to flatten houses in this area, but that hurricane would flatten a lot...
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