This couple was obviously enjoying their spectacular view at Coast Guard Beach, but how long will they be able to stay there? The tides were coming in pretty fast.
We took a walk down the beach for about 1/2 hour and by the time we got back, they had to move way back… or they would have been in the water. The tides have been very high because of Hurricane Erin and many of the beaches have had to close at high tide because there is no place for people to sit. The water is all the way up to the dunes.
The tides on Cape Cod have been exceptionally high lately. They were really high the other day at the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.
If you hike out on the Goose Pond Trail, there are markers that were placed there a few years ago to show people what climate change might look like if the ocean waters rise. You pass these on the way out to the beach.
We were so surprised to see how high the water was the other day when we were hiking there. It was gushing through the culvert at Goose Pond, filling up the pond, and you could see it rising along the trail on the way out to the beach. It was about an hour until high tide and the water was already up to the 2050 marker. We’ve never seen it that high; have you?
