Southeastern Massachusetts Magazine

  We worked the South Shore the last few days, so why not Cape Cod? The couple above looked pretty cool, and it was far away enough to shoot at them. They technically sort of walked into my shot, they just did so before I started shooting pictures that way. We started in Brewster, because I had me a Cat to visit. These, I would assume, are some of the Rocks in question. There wasn't much heavy surf here today... ... as you can tell. Next stop.. Nauset Beach, in Orleans Mother Nature gave us a little break from the rain, which she didn't do in Sandwich (see below) This girl had to drive to the beach to see waves, but you can just watch the video below... These are remnant waves from former Hurricane Ian, who has given us several tides worth of east winds. These pictures are from Tuesday, but there is most likely still some wave action there today. The longer I have this job, the better I get at standing right where the waves can't reach me. Off to Sandwich! It was raining ca...

  What was once Hurricane Ian is still meandering south of New England, and we are getting wind and waves from it. This is Peggotty Beach, in Scituate. In a bad storm, a deft surfer could paddle out, catch the Big Kahuna and ride it into this guy's living room. The home office is in Bourne, so we started off at Sagamore Beach. I consider Sagamore Beach to be the last neighborhood south on the Irish Riviera. We were here about an hour before high tide, Monday. Not too shabby for Sagamore Beach.  Internet Morality is a funny thing, but there is a lot of love behind our casual ability to spam this article into Sandwich social media groups based on Sandwich being in the distant background of this shot... ... and, likewise, Plymouth, with this shot. We were in Bourne, but the background of the picture was in Plymouth. GEFM = Good Enough For Me. Seasoned coastal residents of both America's true hometown and America's first Sandwich can tell a lot about how things are in their tow...

  Hurricane Ian did most of his work in the Confederacy, but he left a little bit of soup for Massachusetts. We got up on the South Shore last Sunday to see what was what. Marshfield, long ago, made the unfortunate decision to build a business district on the low ground in a Splashover Zone. Marshfield doesn't get chopped off the mainland like Duxbury does, and they don't get on TV like Scituate does, but they lead the South Shore in Splashover Flooding. There's really not a second place. We would greatly appreciate any comments to the effect of which local iconic restaurant floods the worst, as well as which local restaurant is the best to safely watch a storm from. For most of my life, the flooding one was a two horse race between Arthur & Pat's in Brant Rock and Bert's in Plymouth. Offhand, I'd list Bert's, the Gurnet Inn or the Fairview as the best place to watch a storm, but I don't drink much and any good boozer could probably increase my list ...

 Hurricane Ian mauled Florida, took a pretty good bite out of South Carolina, has lost most of his strength and is sort of meandering around. The leftovers will head this way soon. We are not getting the actual Hurricane Ian, the NHC is presently (3 AM Sunday) calling it "Remnants of Ian," and there is a Gale Warning for Cape Cod Bay. We have gotten most the rain that Ian is going to give us, and the winds won't be that fierce 20-30 MPH, higher gusts). Our concern with the former Ian is that we should get steady E/NE winds out of the remnants through Wednesday or so. That involves multiple high tide cycles, always a bad thing when it also involves large surf. We're not expecting damage from this storm, other than some minor coastal flooding. The winds, while strong, won't really be in Homewrecking mode. The storm, which will drift around south of us for a few days, should eventually pull out to sea. The wave action will then return to normal. That "eventua...