Cape Cod

[namino tsume]

There is a place up in MA called Cape Cod, and its where i learned to surf. And at first i thought it was normal but now i realize that its.... wrong...
But what people idd was make a beach, took the best break, and mabye a mile or more of beach, where surfing wasnt allowed. Then the rest of the beach, pretty bad sand bars and stuff, was left to the surfers. It was fine, becuase sometimes that gets better then the actual beach. But the 'surfers area' is called unprotected beach... so no life gruads, no trash cans, nothing... still fine... but the big deal is, they let tourist go in the water there. So now you have a beach for swimmers, and a beach for swimmers and surfers. And it gets really annoying when the swimmers ask you to movve down the beach a bit more becuase they're scared of us. so we get out cast further and further from the beach entrance... we end up in a little half ile section with two beaches on both sides. And sometimes park rangers ask us to go back, becuase they're afriad were going to go on their beach.
Now i know why theres no more surfers there.

any thoughts?

[little waves]

i know exactly what your saying....the beach i surf in nh, a private beach at that, banned surfing last summer during tourist season. long as you paddled iut before the mounties came by though you were fine, just had to stay out there till they left. it does suck surfing with swimmer though, especially kids. my favorite is when you get about 7-10 of them standing in a line holding hands letting the waves crash into them as you come hurtling towards them - and the just stand there and smile waiting for you to hit them. GET OUT OF THE F--ng WAY!! lol. i say, the more ya run over the better, hehehe. good luck namino.

[namino tsume]

Always fun :D ... but the ones we have are too smart, they push you off of the wave.


Your in boston?... do you really have to travel to NH to surf? or are there local beaches that get swells, that have some surfablity to them?
im wondering becuase in a couple years im moving up there...

[k mac]

here we have flags to define the surfing area and the bathin areas black and white for surfcraft and red and yellow for swimmers and usally the bodyboarders (tourist ones with the £4.99 polesterine boards from the local shop) and it works alrite except when in the summer you get swimmers who dont give a toss and then the lifegaurds start disturbin the peace by blowin the whistle and tellinb people to move and they dont ,but i dont think there is a better way of doin it so everyone has an equal share of the beach unless anyone else has an idea

[namino tsume]

I know what your saying... and i agree, that there has to be a way to keep tourist and surfers seprate, without blowin this whistle all day.

But what im talking baout here, the lifeguards dont care, they let the swimmers go in. I would prefer the whistles to having to watch out for tourist.

[little waves]

yep - i live on the south shore of boston. need to drive bout an hour north to southern nh to get waves, or half hour to nantasket beach (and some other local south shore beaches) which are usually considerably smaller than nh, and only able to surf them on really big days. worth the 1 hour to nh though.

[capecodsurfer]

That happens at the well known beaches during the height of summer due to huge crowds. No worries though if you know where to go and some of the best surf on the east coast this summer and fall. I would choose cape over almost anywhere on a good day.