Hi everyone,
Thought this would help get the May blood flowing a little faster.
I was out in the Southway today getting the moorings ready for the 2008 season.
After finishing that nasty job, we took the boat down to the land bridge at the end of South Beach.
Channel is still the same until you get down into the area of the closing. 90% of the pool at the very end has back filled in on it self and is now a huge flat. There is a narrow channel that hugs South Beach from the old G buoy down to the closure.
Even the original pool is filled in except for a slice of deep water running against the beach leading to the land bridge. Definitely going to be a first come, first served basis for the boats wanting to get in there to spend the day. Very narrow area to anchor at the end of the channel leading in. IF, and I do mean IF the fish find there way back there, you will have nice bright sand flats to sight fish on, but I really don't see any reason for them to go back in there, as there really wasn't much current other than slow rising tide water and that was with a N wind.
North Monomoy's east side dunes are shrinking by the year. The plover dune at broad creek had water all the way around it an hour before hightide. The little channel the clammers use to get into the tub did look like it was a bit deeper than last season and more pronounced. Minimoy on the west side has been pounded by the heavy SW winds we've had all winter. Just a sliver of what it was last summer. If you remember, it looked like Minimoy was going to actually become a good sustained Island, but the Hurricane of last fall changed all that.
Didn't get to go south on the west side at all. We started feeling the effects of boating in March, so it was time to head in. Sorry no pictures, but the trip into the area of the land bridge was a last minute deal.
Oh ya, the 2004 washover on South beach was very very flat and the same for the washover just behind the J buoy. Unfortuneatly the flats on the inside are holding it together and preventing a new break so far.
Lots of sand moving on the Morris island beach. The curb stone at the bottom of the stairs is completely uncovered. You actually have to jump off to get on the sand. I heard the last big storm we had with SW running up 45mph, the waves were breaking at the 5th step from the bottom at hightide. The whole stone wall is being undermined, and we lost a good chunk of the cliff on the north corner of the refuge.
7 weeks and counting
Capt Keith
Thought this would help get the May blood flowing a little faster.
I was out in the Southway today getting the moorings ready for the 2008 season.
After finishing that nasty job, we took the boat down to the land bridge at the end of South Beach.
Channel is still the same until you get down into the area of the closing. 90% of the pool at the very end has back filled in on it self and is now a huge flat. There is a narrow channel that hugs South Beach from the old G buoy down to the closure.
Even the original pool is filled in except for a slice of deep water running against the beach leading to the land bridge. Definitely going to be a first come, first served basis for the boats wanting to get in there to spend the day. Very narrow area to anchor at the end of the channel leading in. IF, and I do mean IF the fish find there way back there, you will have nice bright sand flats to sight fish on, but I really don't see any reason for them to go back in there, as there really wasn't much current other than slow rising tide water and that was with a N wind.
North Monomoy's east side dunes are shrinking by the year. The plover dune at broad creek had water all the way around it an hour before hightide. The little channel the clammers use to get into the tub did look like it was a bit deeper than last season and more pronounced. Minimoy on the west side has been pounded by the heavy SW winds we've had all winter. Just a sliver of what it was last summer. If you remember, it looked like Minimoy was going to actually become a good sustained Island, but the Hurricane of last fall changed all that.
Didn't get to go south on the west side at all. We started feeling the effects of boating in March, so it was time to head in. Sorry no pictures, but the trip into the area of the land bridge was a last minute deal.
Oh ya, the 2004 washover on South beach was very very flat and the same for the washover just behind the J buoy. Unfortuneatly the flats on the inside are holding it together and preventing a new break so far.
Lots of sand moving on the Morris island beach. The curb stone at the bottom of the stairs is completely uncovered. You actually have to jump off to get on the sand. I heard the last big storm we had with SW running up 45mph, the waves were breaking at the 5th step from the bottom at hightide. The whole stone wall is being undermined, and we lost a good chunk of the cliff on the north corner of the refuge.
7 weeks and counting
Capt Keith