out of curiosity i looked at the obits (us old farts do that sort of thing)…all off-capers except one, a nickerson. no snows, eldridges or sparrows. cape sure has changed.

i grew up on cape during the 70's. i did a lot of surf casting on nauset, caught mostly stripers and blues. i go back to the cape every year. i had a flat in orleans in the 90's. sold out in 2002. i'm excited to see the newest break. i read about it in the boston globe online. i was there in '87 – when the last break opened up. it was right in front of the million dollar house we were painting in chatham. a short while later the house fell into the sea, and the public landing, and beach went missing. i read that monomoy has reattached to the mainland. just like old times.

here's a link to the story if anyone's interested – http://www.townonline.com/brewster

Last week there was a massive Nor'easter that tore up Nauset Beach. It opened a huge, huge breach in the outer beach down by Chatham. In 65-66 I ran a beach taxi business at Nauset and you could drive all the way down to Monomoy.

Today CNN ran a long report on the beach erosion from Nauset. My family ran the Snack Shack there for 35 years. From the video on CNN the water (at low tide when they were filming) is no more than 100 feet from the dunes that shelter the Snack Shack, the Beach administration building and the bandstand.

When I was a kid you had to walk through the sand for a couple of hundred yards past the dunes to get to the water. Today, the water is less than 50 yards from the parking lot.

See… this is the kind of shit you're forced to endure when you open up the comments section of your blog. ;)

and

"it wouldn’t be very honest of me to claim i banged her in the sparrow parking lot. first of all, my coffee would have gotten cold. and secondly, i don’t think her kids would have liked that very much."

See– now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about. That's great writing.

Lean. Mean. George Foreman-style.