South Coast Surf Check, 9/14/18

South Coast Surf Check is back...

Hurricane Florence was still sending surf at us Friday, so we immediately dispatched teams to Westport, Falmouth and even Little Compton, Rhode Island to get to the bottom of this.

Every day of summer is a Dog Day when you're at the beach.

We started in Westport, at Horseneck Beach.

Horseneck Beach is good for shooting just-missed-us hurricane surf, as the Cape and Islands blocks the rest of the South Coast from a storm that is hitting, say, Carolina.

If I try shooting storm surf anywhere else on the South Coast, I come back with Nathan. See the shot of Falmouth (not South Coast, but island-protected) for an example at the end of the article). Horseneck Beach will be in every South Coast Surf Check article that we do.

It is also a popular beach with surfers, although I watched a bunch of surfers yesterday for an hour and didn't see one worthy ride. It was more of a wetsuit social club out there.

Time for the next town...

Little Compton, Rhode Island

We hit South Shore Beach. Note that in Rhodey, the South Shore is actually the southern shore of the state. In Massachusetts, it is the eastern shore because... well, because f*** you.

As if the bus wasn't cool enough, he had two cages in there, one with a giant tropical bird and one with what appeared to be a falcon. I would have hung around and got shots of that, but I didn't feel like talking to a hippy. Nothing against hippies, I just had a lot of ground to cover.

(Straight Outta) Little Compton should have a NWA museum, as well as a guy from NWA as a Selectman.  I bet that MC Ren works cheap these days.

We generally don't get to Rhode Island much, as it is just out of our coverage area. There are those who count Little Compton and Tiverton, which are in Rhode Island, as being part of the South Coast region of Massachusetts.  I am not one of those people... unless the surf is up.

Business took us to Falmouth next, so they snuck into the article. The lighthouse below, which is the next thing that we plan to do an article on, sort of snuck into this article as a preview .