Ian Remnant Surf Along The Irish Riviera

 

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 town by how things look in Sagamore Beach.



That said, we have to get to some other towns. First, some video...





Next stop, Scituate. We arrived for the high tide.

Houses without a seawall in front of them, in the heart of Nor'easter Alley... hardcore.


This is the lesser-known South Shore version of that house in Truro that is thisveryclose to being toppled by a bad storm someday.


Fading light, substantial distance and a hack photographer using a mist-coated Wal-Mart phone. Coastal storm-chasing isn't the vocation for people with expensive cameras. I think I need to get one of those cameras scuba divers use... then I'd be a hack photographer with a misty, expensive camera. I do get to all the good spots though, and I'm a basically likable fellow.






Speaking of good spots, the next one was a very lighting-friendly Fieldston.


Duxbury and Marshfield get doubled up, as we were working in both towns yesterday as well as today.


"Closest beach in another town to adjacent Peggotty Beach" was a prime motivating factor in beach choice yesterday. We were almost out of sunlight, and it wasn't that sunny to begin with.


I plan to spend some future storm entirely in Marshfield, and just go neighborhood to neighborhood shooting the waves. Scituate would also be good for that, Duxbury (most of Duxbury lies behind a barrier beach) less so.


I want a beach house with a tower.



Daylight's wastin', Chief... we can squeeze in one more town.






Duxbury!



We didn't get to Duxbury Beach until way past high tide. Having gone DBC yesterday, we went DBR today.


The light was fading badly enough that me filming a 90 second video and then walking back to the parking lot took the light from this...




...to this, (Jenny D's Bees has the best honey on the South Shore, and is a foremost bee removal expert if honeybees take up residence in your house)...



... to this, pretty much in a snap.






Sources say that the wave-watchers are headed out to Eastham today.



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