Supermoon Flood Tide

There was a Supermoon on Tuesday, a storm on Wednesday and our shutterbugs out Thursday, seeing what was what.

As you know, a supermoon is the full moon which coincides with the lunar perigee. The perigee is the moon's closest approach to Earth.

It results in very high tides, as you can see here in Green Harbor.

You get about 4 Supermoons a year. There is one in March. The one in November, 2016 was the closest in 68 years, and wont be beaten until 2034. 

Unless medical technology makes a great leap forward, the largest Supermoon anyone reading this might see is in December of 2052. The next Lunar Eclipse Supermoon is March of 2021.

I was going to use this artsy shot to say something profound. Instead, I will note that, like the similar sounding Superman, supermoons also make people say "Look, up in the sky..."

Moving on to the never-disappointing Duxbury Beach.

The DBC is situated between the sea and the marsh. It leaves them vulnerable to flooding by both surf and surge. As you can see in the video above, the road floods in extreme high tides, even if there is no notable surf happening.

Sometimes, the surf floods them. Sometimes, the tide floods them. It's like that Sixteen Tons song... "If the right don't get you, then the left one will."

After glorifying people for driving through puddles, we made a few inland/brackish/estuary/transition zone stops, just to see what's what. This is Colby Hewitt Road in Marshfield.

Old Cove Road in Duxbury. This is near the high school, and was my spot to park when I ditched a class and went to Benchwarmer Subs. I may also have blazed here a few times, who can remember all that 1980s stuff, right?

No offense, but the guy who has to walk over a pier during a supermoon to get into his house is probably cooler than you... perhaps even cooler than me, and that ain't easy.

In case you're wondering how close a Supermoon gets to overwhelming the Bluefish River Bridge, the answer is what sports betting people call "a long foot."

I've never actually caught a storm here, as the action on the barrier beach is always more compelling. It would be interesting, though... maybe some time in the future, when Johnny Law cop-blocks me from heading down Gurnet Road.

I was gonna buy this house, but my accountant insisted upon a 484 square foot sea shanty on the Cape.

A quick dip into Kingston...

The Jones River, flooded by the tide.