Waves are huge..debris, rocks etc. 2 hours before high tide
Donna Ardizzoni / Circle Consulting Group 978-526-9222
My View of Life on the Dock
Last night’s fourth super high tide in two days again brought an incredible surge of seawater. Gloucester’s DPW Marco Numerosi was working last night at 2am and reports it was the worst of all. DPW crews and GDP Officers were on the job bright and early this Sunday morning, cleaning the roads of hurled rocks, popples, seaweed, and seagrass.
Officer Al D’Angelo and Marco Numerosi
Eastern Point Road, by Bemo Street, still littered with debris at 8am, is closed, and virtually impassable. One driver tried, and then quickly changed his mind.
This morning photographing and filming at 6:30 you would not believe it was dead low tide. There is so much water and I am afraid the next tide will bring with it another round of destruction. The waves are towering; a large ship, the Oldendorff appeared to head straight out and then steered closer to shore. Stay safe and warm friends.
Popples and debris are littering Atlantic Road, the footbridge sustained damage to the last half, fences and trees are down throughout the neighborhood, and the seas are gaining in ferocity, with the third of the super high tides expected at noon. Please be safe, the wind is mighty powerful this morning and their are potential projectiles everywhere.
Good Harbor Beach Footbridge damaged.
Extensive damage to the railings at the Ocean House Inn, our Snowy Owl Hedwig’s current favorite perch. No sign of her the past few days, but Hedwig is so resourceful, we are hoping for the best.
On Tuesday at high tide the waves in the harbor were crashing over the wall. At one point I actually got drenched. How fun.




From rainbow to power outages, the wind and rain storm of October 30, 2017 had it all.
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Almost looks like stain glass.



Still waves on Shore Road, love how the sun shines through the waves.

The snapshot was taken three hours before high tide. I wasn’t able to get away at noon to have a look and wonder what remnants of Jose our readers saw today?
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On Thursday the waves were awesome on Magnolia Beach. Had to be very careful do to quite an undertow. Just beautiful.


and a couple of stand up paddle boarders enjoying the end of summer rollers. Nice waves out there.





On Tuesday afternoon the waves were awesome on Magnolia Beach. Love the beach is my mantra.


Well, Thursday had wind, rain, waves and then the lightning.

The spray from the waves were amazing on Sunday. Becoming obsessed with waves.


On Wednesday decided to take a ride to the Back Shore and on Shore Road. Lots of wave action a couple of hours after high tide.
Shore Road

Back Shore

Venturing out today around 1:00pm, I caught the tail end of the storm. The winds were still blizzarding and great gusts of snow made places like Brace Cove impossible to photograph. The tide was super high at Good Harbor Beach, but not as high as some recent storms. The waves were tremendous, although they weren’t the ginormous rollers of many nor’easters either.
Seagulls and sanderlings were hunkering down in the coves and others, sailing the surf.