Surf Check: Plymouth and Bourne

A nor'easter passed us by at low tide, so we went out at high tide to see if the waves were any good.

I got held up a bit at my night job, limiting our reach geographically. This is Sagamore Beach, facing Sandwich.

Ideally, we would be further up the South Shore, at a beach like Duxbury or Scituate with higher surf.

Facing Plymouth... this was what nor'easter photographers call a PBS (Plymouth, Bourne, Sandwich) run. If we had more time, we'd have done the CEO (Chatham, Eastham, Orleans) run or the similar CHEW (Chatham, Harwich, Eastham, Wellfleet) run. The Scituate and Marshfield focus gives us the S&M run, while leaving from Bourne and starting in Duxbury upgrades it to a BDSM run. A LBQT run means Let's Bloody Quit This.

Enough with Sagamore...

...Manomet awaits!

Even weak surf looks good from up in a cliff.

Sometimes, a Surf Check article means that dangerous surf is happening. Sometimes, it's just to let you know not to worry.

This nor'easter was a bit of an anomaly. Normally, we don't get ocean storms after mid-April. A worse storm would have ruined lawn repairs up and down the coastlines of the South Shore and Cape Cod.

This storm, following 40 days and 40 nights of rain, was definitely a Freak. Much of New England got May 14th snow from this.