Southeastern Massachusetts Magazine

  Bourne locals are pleased that the Bridge View Grill is open again. Locally owned and managed, they are affiliated with Monument Beach Pizza, down in Mo Beach, as in "Give me mo' pizza!" Like many places, they took a sabbatical during the pandemic, but they are back in business now, and business is good. Tonight they have a special feature. They will have the band playing on their deck from 4 PM to 7 PM tonight. High Attitude will help you laugh at all the tourists crawling over the bridge while you drink cold beer. They are just back in business, but have a good pub menu which I have sampled several times. Yes, I have salad sometimes.  Any place on Cape Cod has to have seafood. 100 Trowbridge Road, open year round.  Come in and get stuffed!

 Is there room on Cape Cod for another fast food heavyweight? Would a White Castle succeed here, or is there some local mojo thing that would kill it before it grows? Sure, there is war in Europe and gas is $5 a gallon, but this is important . I took the liberty of photoshopping a White Castle into the Belmont Circle rotary in Bourne, but it could go anywhere on the Cape. White Castle is a Kansas-based hamburger franchise chain that is most commonly associated with New York. You mostly find them in the Midwest, but you most likely have seen them in New York. There was one in Boston for a while, but the Great Depression killed it. It's a falafel place now. Famous for their Slider mini-burgers, they are as good a bet as Hardee's or Carl Jr's to be #4 if you started listing prominent hamburger chains. However, the gap between WC and the Big 3 (McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's) is precipitous. White Castle has 377 locations. McDonald's has 36,000. It's bet...

  Boston Harbor just recently hosted the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series , although they didn't actually use cliffs. One would think that cliffs are essential for cliff diving, but not in Massachusetts. Nobody died, it must have made some money, it brought great visibility to an obscure sport and it made at least one local writer think of possibilities. Since cliffs aren't really needed for cliff diving (which, if you use the technical terms, is actually High Diving), and since the event seemed somewhat successful, it does make your author wonder what other Massachusetts venues could host such an event. One place stands out above all the others. The Bourne Bridge gets the duke over her Sagamore sister because she has better parking. It's not as crazy as it sounds, although it is pretty close. A high dive has a technical definition, involving at least one somersault and being able to exit the water under your own power. There is also something about not making a big splas...

  We chase coastal storms for this website. When we do the South Shore, we range from Hull to Plymouth. The whole outer Cape is also good, from Provincetown to Chatham. The South Coast? Not so good. The South Coast gets significant protection from Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and the Elizabeth Islands, leading to weaker nor'easter surf. They get their share when hurricanes come, but that tends to be rare. The only places on the South Coast that get good nor'easter surf are Westport and Dartmouth. Of the two, only Westport is accessible to the average schmuck like me. All of the good surf spots in Dartmouth are privately owned and have a mansion on them. So, Westport it is. Westport has not one but two excellent places to watch surf. Horseneck Beach is a classic storm beach, while Gooseberry Island has a causeway that somehow gets hit with waves from both sides. This website loves Westport. Anyhow, we took a ride out there to see the surf. We didn't stay long, we were wi...

  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...