Friday, January 24, 2020

Mild Winter Day, Duxbury Beach

We had some DBC shots in the gallery, why not make an article with them?

They're a few weeks old, I'm not sure if the sand is still that high in front of the seawall.

A few years ago, it was high enough that you could walk down the seawall and step off to the beach, without breaking stride. 

The same glaciers which formed Duxbury Beach also pushed the marsh mud onto it. I'm no geology expert, that mud may go miles into the ocean, buried under sand.

I don't see mud in older (pre-seawall) pics of the beach. It is possible that the seawall changed sand flow dynamics enough to unearth buried muck. I have no scientific basis for this theory, though.

Mount Manomet, in background. She is actually Manomet Hill, and at 395 feet above sea level, she is the tallest thing in Plymouth County. She sits among the Pine Hills, the region of Plymouth which the Pine Hills residential area is named for.

Waves about this high are where a Surf Check article vanishes and a "We're emptying our photo galleries" articles begins.

I try to post non-storm pics now and then. Otherwise, I risk Ghoul status in the neighborhood I grew up in. You never want that Jim Cantore vibe where people see you and instinctively think bad weather is coming. 

"Big wheel keep on turnin'..."

Temporary seawall repairs






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