Cape Cod Surf Check, 10/12/18

As former Hurricane Michael moved out to sea south of Cape Cod, our intrepid photographers headed out to Eastham to see what was happening.

First stop: Coast Guard Beach

We went at low tide... Which, judging by these dunes, may have been a good thing.

Check the video below...

No surfers, the waves were bunched together poorly for even the most gallant goofy-footer.

You may think that I am trying for a profound shot of the Coast Guard station, but in reality, I just took this pic as I was leaving, so I would know when my pics stopped being from CGB and started being from Nauset Light Beach.

We haven't had a surf check article with destruction since April in Duxbury.

Still, we love waves of all sizes.

Ahhh... Love. Must be nice. It's my birthday today, and I am as alone as a man can be. The girl I see decided that the best way to celebrate my birthday was to go to Salem without me, my family is at a funeral and I will probably spend my birthday staring at my office's walls or hanging out at the hotel with some cocaine people I know. I don't like cocaine personally ("Just what I need... a drug that makes me babble!"), but they are as nocturnal as I am, and it beats talking to Bay Bay Cat in my squalid office during a dark October witching hour. Those two people in the picture look happy, though... God bless 'em.

Cape Cod Surf Check, 10/5/18

Tropical Storm Leslie is far offshore, but her surf was reaching us Friday. We sent the team to the Outer Cape to check it out. We started in Wellfleet. 

We only go so far, however...

We arrived at low tide, which took away some drama and limited our close-ups.

We could have tried to go down the dune...

... but No.

No surfers today, but one also got devoured here recently.

One last shot, and we're Audi.

Next stop... Eastham

The wind was letting up by this time,  but we did the best that we could.

If "the best that we could" means "too lazy to walk down to the beach."

To be fair to our staff, we had already been to Scituate, Marshfield, Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth, Bourne, Hyannis and Wellfleet. You can see the South Shore stuff by clicking here.

There's a really cool looking lady walking there, but I was shooting with a phone.

Have a good Saturday!

South Shore Surf Check, 10/5

Tropical Storm Leslie is way offshore, but we thought that we'd take to the beaches and see what they were up to. 

Today, we went to Scituate, Marshfield, Duxbury, Kingston, Plymouth and Sagamore.

We did Scituate first.

The waves will be at their highest tonight, but I only have daylight time free.

Enough of the Scity, off to Vegas... after some video

We were a touch before high tide, because we had/have some ground to cover.

I didn't mind, because true high tide probably would have soaked me where I was standing.

Off to Deluxebury, after some wind video...

Duxbury is interesting in two ways... one way is that the waves are big, and the other way is to see if the seawall gets more damaged.

The wind was more north than east, and Duxbury faces East, so they had weak surf.

At least the wall is safe... for now.

Kingston gets a shot in before we check Duxbury's kite surfers, or whatever you call this sport.

Some foliage... why not?

Off to the Bert''s part of Plymouth...

Remember, the tides and surf will be worse tonight...

Sagamore Beach...

We also have a Cape Cod surf check coming up....

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.

The gull and I know the good spots.

Dune Goldenrod, which sounds like a guy's porno name.

Day was coming on full speed, and the beach was ready for the walkers. I grew up on lonely Duxbury Beach, am too used to having it to myself...

... so I bid Eastham farewell. 

Nauset Light's lights are red and white, just like the lighthouse itself.