Southeastern Massachusetts Magazine

  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...

  A nor'easter threw some very large waves at Massachusetts today. We started off in Hull. Hull was still getting hit by the storm when we were there at high tide. By contrast, our next stop- Duxbury- was almost sunny. Hull had let school out early and blocked off Nantasket Beach parking, so I had to park near L Street Pizza and walk over. According to the wave buoys, Hull has having 15-18 foot waves just offshore. I was freezing, so we did a quick couple of shots, a movie, a FB Live and we were Audi like motherlovin' Curt Gowdy. We may have gotten out while the gettin' was good. Unfortunately, Duxbury Beach was just as dangerous. The seas were angry that day, my friend. The roads were also flooded, so my Toyota simply wasn't making it to my usual Ocean Road North vantage point. We made it as far as the old Gurnet Inn. Sorry about the cussin' in the video below, both of our shutterbugs got soaked a few times. Aiming towards Marshfield... I rapid fired this set of wa...

  Nor'easter Tuesday, we got to the Outer Cape by daybreak. It was low tide, but we'll be on the South Shore at high tide, so we went very early. Very sloppy surf Nauset Light Beach was fixing up their parking lot, and I was early, so we were among the only ones there. Next stop... Longnook Beach in Truro It was very windy here, difficult to stand straight, and I'm not a small man. I'm sort of the high profile vehicle of the human race. There was also a sandstorm, so I hid behind the dune Same deal as Nauset, we were there at low tide. Never been to this beach, though, so it was worth it. Stacey wanted this beach so she could submit the photo to the Surf Forecast site. They were lacking a Longnook shot. Next stop.... Sagamore Beach I usually cheat here, taking one pic aimed at Plymouth and one aimed at Sandwich, then spam into those towns' FB pages. Not enough visibility for that today. A few people have told me that this guy in the picture below needs to step up ...