Cranberry County: Surf Check, Nauset Light Beach, At Dawn

Good morning!

I slept well last night, woke up early with a ton of energy and decided to check an Atlantic sunrise.

Off to Nauset Light Beach we go. As Thoreau sorta said, a man with a camera phone can stand on a Cape Cod beach at sunrise and put all of America behind him.

For a guy who dates a girl who my friends refer to as "a dime piece," I tend to have to sneak up on my models and shoot (with a camera) them surreptitiously .

There is a storm offshore which aspires to become a tropical storm but doesn't quite have the moxie, but it is rolling some beautiful waves back at us.

The bluffs look awesome in the right light.

My initial thoughts were to head out and shoot me a shark, as they are most active around dawn and dusk, but I rolled up on Nauset at sunrise time, so we had a theme switch.

The surf was too rough for sharking, although I did see a few seals. They were too fast for me to get the camera on them.

I also saw a huge doe crossing the road just before I got to the beach. She was faster than my camera skills, and also won't be appearing in this article.

I can catch the surf, however...

I was leaving as the surfers were arriving, so no Hang Ten stuff...

I get into my own articles now and then, but only with Funhouse camera angles... it's for the best, trust me, I look like the Frankenstein monster.

The surf is a better model, anyhow.

No houses were going to get torn down by this surf, but it teamed with the sunrise to be article worthy.

There was a bit of a rip current and some surf was moving at odd angles.

Looking north...

...and looking south.

When you only see one set of footsteps, that is when God carried you... unless you see these footprints, which just mean that you are following a seagull.